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On January 3, 2011, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:26 PM, torhu <torhu.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Looks good to me, except that I don't know of any legimitate use for
> > that value of USER_HOME on Windows. I see some apps ported from Linux
> > (like Mercurial) that put their config files in there, which they are
> > not supposed to do. What use cases are USER_HOME meant for?
>
> USER_DOCUMENTS is where you would be advised to write stand-alone data
> files that somebody might want to copy around, such as screenshots,
> replays, etc.
>
> USER_DATA is where you'd be advised to write internal data files, such
> as high scores.
>
> USER_HOME doesn't serve much purpose in terms of saving something
> directly to it (and the manual would advise against it), but it might
> be useful as a starting point for a file selector in a GUI.
Thats about the only thing I can think of off the top of my head.
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