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RallyRabbit
RallyRabbit

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What are the default Profile Locations/Paths for Documents, Pictures, Music for Spanish, French and English?

I am dealing with a program that can reads in a file that uses absolute paths rather than relative paths. Problem is, this can be French, English and Spanish. What I'm looking for is a definition of what the user profile directory is set up like in English, Spanish and French.

For Instance, English is relatively east and documented: XP: c:\Documents and Settings\user\my documents c:\Documents and Settings\user\my documents\my pictures and so on

Win7/8: c:\users\user\pictures c:\users\user\music c:\users\user\documents and so on

However, for Spanish I can't find documentation, for instance, I think it is XP: c:\configuraciones y documentos\user\mis documentos c:\configuraciones y documentos\user\mis documentos\mis imagenes c:\configuraciones y documentos\user\mis documentos\mis imágenes c:\configuraciones y documentos\user\mis documentos\mis fotos

7/8: c:\users\user\documentos c:\users\user\fotos c:\users\user\imagenes c:\users\user\imágenes

95/98/ME/NT/2000/etc - did they even have standard locations for music, documents and pictures anywhere????

Roughly, I see these all over google and bing but nothing that seems like a firm "this is what it is" and I see virtually nothing on French. I've searched MSDN, but only see anything on English.

Anyway, what i'm doing it doing a replace on part of a pathname that I'm reading in these files, but, I can't replace unless I know what the paths are supposed to be.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6161

Answers (1)

RallyRabbit
RallyRabbit

Reputation: 463

well, the best I can come up with, though I can find no real documentation on it.

English: Windows 95: C:\My Documents

Windows 98, Windows ME: C:\My Documents C:\My Pictures C:\My Music

Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003: Unknown

Windows XP, Vista: C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Pictures C:\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music

Windows 7/8 c:\users\username\My Documents c:\users\username\My Music c:\users\username\My Pictures

Spanish: Windows 95: C:\Mis Documentos

Windows 98, Windows ME: C:\Mis Documentos C:\Mis Imagenes or C:\Mis Imágenes C:\Mi Musica

Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003: Unknown

Windows XP, Vista: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Mis Documentos C:\Documents and Settings\username\Mis Documentos\Mis Imagenes or C:\Documents and Settings\username\Mis Documentos\Mis Imágenes C:\Documents and Settings\username\Mis Documentos\Mi Musica

Or it could be C:\documentos y configuraciones or c:\configuraciones y documentos

Windows 7/8 c:\users\username\Mis Documentos c:\users\username\Mi Musica c:\users\username\Mis Imágenes or c:\users\username\Mis Imagenes

or it could be c:\usuarios\users....

French: Unknown at this time

Upvotes: 1

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