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Find Documents Folder

Q The General control panel (GCP) in 7.6, 7.6.1 and 8.0 has the document options: Last folder, Application set folder, and Documents folder. How can my application determine where this folder is?

A The General control panel (GCP) patches FindFolder so it will return the correct document folder given the current GCP options. Pass FindFolder a folderType of 'docs'. One quick note: Because the GCP patches FindFolder, the createFolder option doesn't work. If the folder doesn't exist you won't get an error and it won't be created. You have to write code to determine if the folder actually exist: if it doesn't, you'll have to create it yourself.

[Mar 26 2001]

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