One thing that always confuses me is how the special folders of Environment.SpecialFolder translate into real directories. Some are really obvious, especially on Windows, but on Mono on Linux it’s not so obvious. So I wrote a little app that tells where those folders are. Here are the results:
| Environment.SpecialFolder | .NET 3.5 on Windows 7 (32bit) | Mono on Ubuntu 10.10 |
| Personal | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents | $HOME |
| Desktop | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop | $HOME/Desktop (or $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR if set) |
| MyComputer | “” | “” |
| Programs | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs | “” |
| Personal | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents | $HOME |
| Favorites | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Favorites | “” |
| Startup | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup | “” |
| Recent | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent | “” |
| SendTo | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo | “” |
| StartMenu | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu | “” |
| MyMusic | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Music | $HOME/Music (or $XDG_MUSIC_DIR if set) |
| DesktopDirectory | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Desktop | $HOME/Desktop (or $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR if set) |
| Templates | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates | “” |
| ApplicationData | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming | $HOME/.config (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if set) |
| LocalApplicationData | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local | $HOME/.local/share (or $XDG_DATA_HOME if set) |
| InternetCache | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files | “” |
| Cookies | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies | “” |
| History | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History | “” |
| CommonApplicationData | C:\ProgramData | /usr/share |
| System | C:\Windows\system32 | “” |
| ProgramFiles | C:\Program Files | “” |
| MyPictures | C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Pictures | $HOME/Pictures (or $XDG_PICTURES_DIR if set) |
| CommonProgramFiles | C:\Program Files\Common Files=C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents | “” |
See also http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
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