public folders

[lmtis]

I have been saving data in the public documents folder on WinXP machines. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\National Instruments\Data

I have just gotten a new machine, and it has Win7 on it.  The path to the public folder has changed.  Is there some way to programmatically find the path from windows?

[tst]

The constants subpalette (or whatever it's called) under the file palette has a VI which returns paths to specific system folders. I assume this folder is one of them.

[lmtis]

There are a number of folder constants, but the public folder is not one of them.

[tst]

Then I'm assuming that you can get it using the .NET GetFolderPath method - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment.getfolderpath.aspx

I don't remember what the equivalent Win32 method is off hand.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Imtis,

have you really looked into the help for the GetSystemDirectory function? Type 6 = "public documents"...

[lmtis]

I saw that file, but thought that it just gave the location of the OS.  Didn't THINK to look at the help.  You are correct Gerd.  Thank you!