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Getting System Folders Easily via API - Temporary Directory

Temporary Directory

Well the most liked directory to take up so much space and yet people start deleting files from their Windows Directory (hmmmm....)! So heres another way of retrieving the Temporary Directory:

Private Declare Function GetTempPath Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTempPathA" (ByVal nBufferLength As Long, ByVal lpBuffer As String) As Long
Private Const MAX_LENGTH = 512

Public Function GetTempDirectory() As String
   Dim s As String
   Dim c As Long
   s = Space$(MAX_LENGTH)
   c = GetTempPath(MAX_LENGTH, s)
   If c > 0 Then
       If c > Len(s) Then
           s = Space$(c + 1)
           c = GetTempPath(MAX_LENGTH, s)
       End If
   End If
   GetTempDirectory = IIf(c > 0, Left$(s, c), "")
End Function


Okay time to wrap things up... if you lazy to cut/copy/paste all the code i've done the work for your convienence. The next part as all the code wrapped in a module so you can easily reference any path you want!

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Comments

  • Temp path... the easy way

    Posted by svdoever on 23 Jul 2005

    When you need the Temp folder, the easy (and clean .Net way) is to use: Path.GetTempPath()

  • Posted by Thushan Fernando on 30 Aug 2003

    it will still work for change dpaths... i used TweakXP to try it out on a few VMs and it worked fine... as far as other languaegs go... i only get English versions of OS's from MS so i dont know what ...

  • Posted by boygenius on 30 Aug 2003

    so if the user changes their dir from say C:\WinNT\System32\ to C:\WindowsNT\System Files\ would i still be able to get the Windows DIR and System DIR?

    also what about foreign languages?

  • Posted by Thushan Fernando on 04 Jul 2002

    hey,

    sorry i couldnt reply earlier, I only saw my post now!

    thank-you for your kind words!

  • VERY USEFUL!

    Posted by MichaelMyAss on 21 Jun 2002

    Hey,

    I must say this is EXTREEMLY useful for a nutcase like myself!

    I infact had the exact problem you said most people have.

    Thanks alot! It really helps!