B4J Question True name of system folder "Downloads"

[johnmie]

Hi everyone,
I am trying to prevent B4J and B4i users from saving files to the official downloads folder (C:\<user>\Downloads under B4J), but could not find the corresponding environment variable nor another way to identify this folder in a non-English OS (in my French systems it would be "\Téléchargements"). GetDataFolder and other tricks I found in the forum always return "Downloads" at best, regardless of how I tried to tweak them.

Can anybody suggest a solution, please. Thank you in advance.

 

[josejad]

Maybe this post give you some clue?

Download folder

Anyone know of a safe way to obtain the download folder name on a windows system. I thought file.dir????? might but no luck. For now I am just getting it from a hardwired global setting. Is just using a ini ( text) file and a map the best way to replace the windows ini process?

www.b4x.com

 

[johnmie]

thanks José,
This is actually the first thing I looked at, but unfortunately it requires that I already know the name of the folder in the language of the OS.

 

[josejad]

If I'm not wrong, the language folder name, is just an alias, but the real folder is always called "Downloads".
For example, in my system (spanish windows 11) I see "Descargas", but the real folder in the file system is "Downloads".
Anyway, wait for some other answers because I'm not really sure.

 

[johnmie]

You are absolutely right, replacing "Documents" in DirUserDefault with "Downloads" points indeed to the directory "Téléchargements", but it would nice if I could tell the user which folder to avoid. No big deal, problem solved, thank you.