Computer documents path?

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Hi!

I need to save a file to the players computer and I want it to save in Documents/Custom Levels. But I don't know how I would get this to work. I also don't know how I can get it to save on Mac since it appears to have a different path then Windows. But I still need help with Windows.

If you know these paths, please tell me!

Thanks

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Answer by ExtremePowers · Oct 09, 2014 at 03:09 PM

In the top of your file put:

 import System.Environment;

Then try this:

 var DocumentsPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
 Debug.Log(DocumentsPath);

NOTE: The above is javascript

C#:

 using System.Environment;
 
 String DocumentsPath = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
 Debug.Log(DocumentsPath);

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XxSimBaaxX · Jul 19, 2017 at 12:47 PM 0

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how can I get the path with the "/" separator and not the "\" separator?

RinkWilbrink XxSimBaaxX · Jan 25, 2021 at 05:36 PM 0

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The / or \ separator doesn't change anything, if you want it to be consistant you could add a @ before the string like: @"C:\folder\subfolder". what you could also do is string.Replace('\', '/') but this costs cpu performance and as I said before this doesn't change anything about the functionality so I would personally recommend to not use string.Replace.

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Answer by dmg0600 · Oct 09, 2014 at 03:11 PM

Doing a short search I could find this code from Apache in Unity forums:

 string path = "";
 
 if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WindowsPlayer || Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WindowsEditor) {
     path = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData);
 } else {
     path = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
 } // if
 
 return path;

And combining it with this link from MSDN you can have it to write to My Documents in Windows and to Personal in Mac.

 string path = "";
 
 if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WindowsPlayer || Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WindowsEditor) {
     path = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
 } else {
     path = Environment.GetFolderPath (Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
 } // if
 
 return path;

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