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Somewhere to save....

Hi all,
I need to write a config file to an easy to find place. i first thought to just use c:\ but then remembered that my other machine doesn't have c: but f: instead ( go figure ). anyway what i was wondering was whether or not there is an easy way to find the system drive from Java?

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zzynx

On Windows e.g. that will return

C:\Documents and Settings\<userid>

The drive is the system drive

petepalmer

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That will do very nicely thank you :)

zzynx

You're welcome.
Thanks for accepting
:°)

primusmagestri

I like to keep my jars, config files and starter batch files in (almost) the same place. This code gives you the jar file path:

String path;
try
{

String className = getClass( ).getName( );
className = className.substring( className.lastIndexOf( '.' ) + 1 )
+ ".class";

path = getClass( ).getResource( className ).getPath( );
path = URLDecoder.decode( path, "UTF-8" );

int pos = path.substring( 0, path.indexOf( '!' ) ).lastIndexOf( '/' );
path = path.substring( path.indexOf( '/' ) + 1, pos );
if( System.getProperty( "file.separator" ).equals( "/" ) )
{
//include "/" at start for UNIX OS
path = "/" + path;
}
}
catch( Exception ex )
{
System.out.println( "Could not init application paths; " + ex.getMessage( ) );
}

primusmagestri

Wow, that was fast...