Where do you save preferences?

Mark Schonewille m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Sat Jun 16 16:44:32 EDT 2012


Hi Bill,

Use specialfolderpath(26) on Windows and $HOME on Linux. You can hide the preferences file on Linux by starting the file name with a dot.

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On 16 jun 2012, at 22:28, Bill Vlahos wrote:

> The specialFolderPath ("Preferences") function only works on the Mac.
> 
> Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows and LInux?
> 
> Bill Vlahos
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