Question

I need to find my documents path using Java. The following code doesn’t give me “accurate” loation

System.getProperty("user.home");

What should be the other way around?

P.S:
I don’t want to use the JFileChooser Dirty trick.

Answer 1

You can get it using a registry query, no need for JNA or admin rights for that.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("reg query \"HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell 
Folders\" /v personal");

Obviously this will fail on anything other than Windows, and I am not certain whether this works for Windows XP.

EDIT:
Put this in a working sequence of code:

String myDocuments = null;

try {
    Process p =  Runtime.getRuntime().exec("reg query \"HKCU\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders\" /v personal");
    p.waitFor();

    InputStream in = p.getInputStream();
    byte[] b = new byte[in.available()];
    in.read(b);
    in.close();

    myDocuments = new String(b);
    myDocuments = myDocuments.split("\\s\\s+")[4];

} catch(Throwable t) {
    t.printStackTrace();
}

System.out.println(myDocuments);

Note this will lock the process until “reg query” is done, which might cause trouble dependeing on what you are doing.