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From: Randy
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:10

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Whats the accepted way to get the location of the current user's My 
Documents folder? I'm trying to use:

#include <shlobj.h>

   LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
   if( SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(Handle,CSIDL_PERSONAL,&pidl) == NOERROR)
   {
       char buf[MAX_PATH];

       SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl,buf);
       String sFolderString = buf;
}

but I'm getting compiler errors from shobjidl.h for duplicate symbols 
under BCB6. Should I be using a different header?

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