Question

I expect the specialfolder.personal returns c:/users/xxx, however in my Windows 7 system, it returns
c:/users/xxx/Documents. Why? How to get the folder of personal root directory?

Answer 1

From the documentation:

Personal: The directory that serves as a common repository for documents. This member is equivalent to MyDocuments.

Instead, you want SpecialFolder.UserProfile.

UserProfile: The user’s profile folder. Applications should not create files or folders at this level; they should put their data under the locations referred to by ApplicationData.

Update

Apparently, this only works in .NET 4. So instead, try this:

System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("UserProfile");