Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/23/19:02:40
In 2000 domain and probably .NET, active directory,
group policy, user config
there are 4 folders and 1 subfolder that receive special
consideration from MS in domain administration
"$USERPROFILE/Application Data"
"$USERPROFILE/Desktop"
"$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
"$USERPROFILE/My Documents/My Pictures"
"$USERPROFILE/Start Menu"
Each is individually redirectable to some other location
but should still be accessable under "$USERPROFILE"
I hope I'm not telling something already generally known.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> Hmm... cygpath currently has options to print the windows Documents and
> Settings directory (-H), as well as the Start Menu/Programs directory
> (-P). Should we add more options for the other meaningful Windows
> directories (such as My Documents, for example)? What other special names
> should we be aware of? Would anyone know which API calls return these?
> Igor
> P.S. As an aside, I've just discovered that the -A flag is ignored or
> non-functional on Win98... I'll look into that.
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> > To add new wrinkles after the final one, "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" is
> > still somewhat presumptuous. That certainly looks like the default
> > location, but in Windows XP (what I just checked on) the user is allowed
> > to change the location of My Documents through the UI. On my machine,
> > it's (Windows syntax) D:\Doc, even though %USERPROFILE% still references
> > C:\Documents and Settings\smueller.
> >
> > stephan();
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don Dwiggins [mailto:dond AT advancedmp DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:14 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Is it possible to copy a file from anywhere to My Documents
> > with bash cp?
> >
> >
> > Randall R Schulz writes:
> > > You should be able to see the contents of your "My Documents"
> > > directory with this command:
> >
> > > % ls -l "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> >
> > > Likewise, you can move or copy files to that directory like this:
> >
> > > % cp SomeFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> > > % mv OtherFile "$USERPROFILE/My Documents"
> >
> > As a final wrinkle, if you're going to do this a lot, you might want to
> > do something like "mount -u "$USERPROFILE/My Documents" /mydocs"; then
> > you can say things like "mv furniture /mydocs".
>
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