Question

I’m getting the error “Access to the path ‘LocalApplicationData\MyProgram\’ is denied.” when trying to create a directory for my log file. This is when I’m running the program as a non-admin user.

Directory.CreateDirectory(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData + "\\MyProgram\\");

Why would this be?

Thanks

Answer 1

LocalApplicationData is just an enum value. You will have to use it in combination with GetFolderPath:

string folder = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(
    Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData), 
    "MyProgram");