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Re: Getting the location of My Documents

#1852
From: JB
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:03
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Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote:
>From the help:
><help>
>Once your application has the My Documents PIDL, ......
>From this it sounds like you can use the MyDoc PIDL for shell
>operations, but if you want to use "normal" file functions, you need to use Personal.
>
>I don't think that there is any guarantee that MyDocuments >physically exists on the local machine.  It would be so much >easier to backup/enforce retention rules if all documents >existed on the server.

I read all the help - unfortunately it does not help me. I am finding that CSDIL_MYDOCUMENTS is not returning anything even when I specifically know there is a My Documents on the local drive on an XP machine!
JB
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