[Tutor] Quickest way to find a folder on windows

[John Purser]

Since the "My Documents" folder can be re-named you need to search the
registry to see what the user's "my documents" folder is.  I'm not sure what
domain constraints might do to this setting.  Perhaps the most efficient
method if you were just interested in the current user's "My Documents"
directory would be to determine the current value of the %HOME% variable.

John Purser

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From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf
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Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 04:32
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Subject: [Tutor] Quickest way to find a folder on windows


Hi all,   What is the quickest way to find/search a folder on windows?
Specifically, I want to find the 'My Documents' folder on different machines
but since this one lies in different user-specific folders (the user account
on XP) I'm being forced to traverse the whole drive looking for it (though I
can start from 'Documents and Settings' to prune the search space)   Is
there a faster way? I know this is very reliant on the windows search API so
maybe I'm stuck with my solution Any help is appreciated   cheers j