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Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory

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Date 2015-07-11 09:28 +0200
Subject Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory
From Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.410.1436599708.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On 11 July 2015 at 02:24,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> The My Documents directory is not guaranteed to be named "Documents". On
> older versions of windows it was "My Documents", and on foreign versions
> of windows it is a name in their language.

That’s not necessarily “older”.

Windows XP/7/8: My Documents
Windows Vista/8.1: Documents

As for localized versions, Vista and up do the translation in Windows
Explorer but use English names on disk.

…but even with all that, users (or their administrators) can move the
My Documents folder away from the home directory (to a file server,
for example).

-- 
Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
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Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 09:27 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-10 15:47 +0100
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-07-10 17:11 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-10 16:12 +0100
    Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-07-10 10:25 -0500
      Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:48 -0700
        Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 10:56 -0700
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-07-10 09:46 -0500
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-07-10 20:24 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-07-11 09:28 +0200
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-11 11:47 -0400
  Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-01 02:50 -0400

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