special folders

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:
> It is therefore useful to use the specialFolderPath() function instead 
> of hardcoding paths - especially when it comes to other languages. 
> Although I don't know this for sure, it wouldn't surprise me to find 
> out that certain folders are named differently in other localized OSes. 

One more reason:  things change.

For example, specialFolderPath(26) works great on both XP and Vista, but 
returns different values.  Woe be to the developer using hard-coded 
paths....


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