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> What does your actual code look like?

I wrote this routine to convert a PIDL to a display or path name:

AnsiString GetPathName (TItemIDList *PIDL, IShellFolder *Folder, DWORD Type)
{
    TStrRet Str;

    if (Folder->GetDisplayNameOf(PIDL, Type, Str) == NOERROR)
    {
        switch (Str.uType)
        {
            case STRRET_WSTR:
                if (Str.pOleStr != NULL)
                    return(WideCharToString(Str.pOleStr));
                break;
            case STRRET_OFFSET:
                return(((char *) PIDL) + Str.uOffset);
            case STRRET_CSTR:
                return(Str.cStr);
        }
    }
    return("");
}

This is the code that gets the PIDL of the My Documents folder and displays
the different display names for it:

Ole2::IMalloc *Mem;
IShellFolder *Folder;
TItemIDList *ItemID;

if (SHGetMalloc(Mem) == NOERROR)
{
    if (SHGetDesktopFolder(Folder) == NOERROR)
    {
        if (SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL, CSIDL_PERSONAL, ItemID) ==
NOERROR)
        {
            Memo1->Lines->Add(GetPathName(ItemID, Folder, SHGDN_NORMAL));
            Memo1->Lines->Add(GetPathName(ItemID, Folder, SHGDN_INFOLDER));
            Memo1->Lines->Add(GetPathName(ItemID, Folder,
SHGDN_FORPARSING));
            Mem->Free(ItemID);
        }
        Folder->Release();
    }
    Mem->Release();
}

> When you called GetDisplayNameOf(), what actual value did you pass to
> uFlags parameter?  Did you use SHGDN_NORMAL, SHGDN_INFOLDER,
> or SHGDN_FORPARSING.

As you can see above, I tried all three, and they all return 'D:\Docs' on my
machine.