Question

I’d like to create a directory in the user’s ‘Documents’ folder, but so far I’ve only found out how to get the user’s home directory:

javax.swing.JFileChooser fr = new javax.swing.JFileChooser(); javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView fw = fr.getFileSystemView(); this.userDirectory = fw.getDefaultDirectory(); 

In Windows the above code returns the ‘My Documents’ directory, which is great, that’s where the new documents are supposed to go. On OS X it only returns the home directory.

Adding ‘Documents’ to the returned path would cause problems with localization.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

System.getProperty(‘user.home’)+File.separator+’Documents’;

And don’t worry about with localization, look:

macb:Documents laullon$ pwd /Users/laullon/Documents 

My OS X is in Spanish.