Get System Directory - User Application Data question

[Taki1999]

When I use Get System Directory with the User Application Data folder type, I get C:\<user>\AppData\Local. What I'm wanting is to get C:\<user>\AppData\Roaming.

Use case here is that I want to check whether the user has saved SVN authentication data in "Roaming\Subversion\auth".

I can strip path and replace Local with Roaming but I'm a bit worried that I'm throwing away some of the goodness that Get System Directory is giving me if I do so.

I'm hoping I'm missing something simple. Otherwise, I might put in an Idea Exchange to have Get System Directory only drop me into the C:\<user>\AppData directory instead of C:\<user>\AppData\Local.

Anybody have any better ideas or workarounds for this? 

EDIT: My actual SVN issue I have a workaround for. I'm still curious about the Get System Directory behavior. For my SVN issue, I can just command line a --non-interactive and then parse the error string if authentication fails.

[OEM_Dev]

You could try implementing this yourself. A quick look through the microsoft MSDN shows the following as being the most likely candidate

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762188(v=vs.85).aspx

Of course, this raises the questions of is the effort to get that working more worthwhile than simply using strip path?

[Taki1999]

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@OEM_Dev wrote:

Of course, this raises the questions of is the effort to get that working more worthwhile than simply using strip path?

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Yeah. I don't want to get involved with reimplementing Get System Directory myself. The whole reason for using Get System Directory is so I don't have to reimplement it for OS changes. It seems like a bit of an oversight if the NI implementation ignores LocalLow and Roaming. Defaulting to Local is not a bad choice. It probably should be documented in the function help.

(i.e. the effort clearly isn't worth it for me. For NI on the other hand . . . 😛 )

EDIT: Is it unreasonable to expect to be able to get at all of these from Get System Directory? It might be since I'm sure different OSes are going to handle this differently. I really don't know.

[natasftw]

http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361H-01/glang/get_system_directory/

What option are you using as your input?  If you change it, does the path change from Local to one of the other directories you want?

[Taki1999]

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@natasftw wrote:

What option are you using as your input?  If you change it, does the path change from Local to one of the other directories you want?

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I'm using User Application Data. Digital representation is 3. None of the NI selectable options gives me the directory I want. I could use User Home and then add AppData\Roaming or I could use User Application Data and strip Local.

According to the MSDN link I provided, there are three directories on Windows which could correspond to User Application Data. AppData\Local, AppData\LocalLow, and AppData\Roaming. As mentioned before, pointing to AppData\Local is a reasonable choice. It's just unfortunate that SVN chose AppData\Roaming instead of AppData\Local and NI picked AppData\Local.