How the get the absolute path to the user://-directory?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By rolfpancake

I’m trying to open a path with the systems filemanager. Therefore I use OS.shell_open(path) and it works well (at least on Windows) for absolute strings like:

OS.shell_open("C:/Users/<username>/AppData/Roaming/Godot/app_userdata/...")

My problem is that I want to open up the user directory directly without knowing what the user name is. I tried something like:

OS.shell_open("%appdata%/Godot/app_userdata/...")

But it doesn’t work. Is there a possiblity to get the path to the user://-directory? Is there a cross-platform way to achieve that?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: volzhs

OS.get_user_data_dir()

String get_user_data_dir ( ) const
Returns the absolute directory path where user data is written (user://).

I must have been blind o.0
Awesome, thank you!

rolfpancake | 2018-02-05 19:57

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