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JB wrote:

>I need to get the pathname for the user's My Documents folder.
>Initially I used SHGetFolderLocation, with CSIDL_PERSONAL this
>works ok until the user is logged onto a network and it returns 
>a location on the server that is a personal folder set up for 
>the user.
>I have tried using the parameter CSIDL_MYDOCUMENTS but on a 
>standalone PC it gives a pidl of null.
>What is the best way to get the location of the My Documents 
>folder on the hard drive of the PC?

From the help:
<help>
Once your application has the My Documents PIDL, it can handle the
folder just as it would a normal file system folder: enumerating
items, parsing, binding, and performing any other valid folder
operations. The Shell automatically maps changes in My Documents or
its subfolders to the appropriate file system folders.

If your application needs access to the actual file system folder that
contains the current user's documents, pass CSIDL_PERSONAL to
SHGetFolderLocation. The function returns the PIDL of the file system
folder that is displayed in the current user's My Documents folder.
</help>

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.