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    nikitablack
    wrote on 30 Jan 2015, 15:14 last edited by
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    Greetings,

    I want to locate a ProgramData (or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data). I'm using QStandardPaths class. I tried a bunch of different StandardLocations. But I always have C:/Users/myuser/... folder, i.e. not public folder. Currently I'm using windows API for that, but maybe I'm just doing something wrong.

    Qt 5.4.0, Win7.

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      andre
      wrote on 30 Jan 2015, 15:37 last edited by
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      Some of these functions should return more than one item. Does none of them contain the path you need?

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        nikitablack
        wrote on 30 Jan 2015, 16:09 last edited by
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        That's right, no one.

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          hskoglund
          wrote on 30 Jan 2015, 22:45 last edited by
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          Hi, I also tried Qt for that directory, but alas, you have to venture into the bowels of Windows:
          @
          #include "shlobj.h"
          @

          then:
          @
          TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH];
          SHGetFolderPath(NULL,CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA,NULL,0,szPath);
          QString sCommonAppData = QString::fromWCharArray(szPath);
          @

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