How to Get Temporary Folder for Current User

How to get temporary folder for current user

System.IO.Path.GetTempPath() is just a wrapper for a native call to GetTempPath(..) in Kernel32.

Have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364992(VS.85).aspx

Copied from that page:

The GetTempPath function checks for the existence of environment variables in the following order and uses the first path found:

• The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
• The path specified by the TEMP environment variable.
• The path specified by the USERPROFILE environment variable.
• The Windows directory.

It's not entirely clear to me whether "The Windows directory" means the temp directory under windows or the windows directory itself. Dumping temp files in the windows directory itself sounds like an undesirable case, but who knows.

So combining that page with your post I would guess that either one of the TMP, TEMP or USERPROFILE variables for your Administrator user points to the windows path, or else they're not set and it's taking a fallback to the windows temp path.

Getting user temporary folder path in Windows

Is there a reason you can't use the Win32 GetTempPath API?

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa364992(VS.85).aspx

This API is available starting with W2K and hence will be available on all of your listed targets.

How do I open USER Temp Folder, and not Windows TEMP

%USERPROFILE% expands to "C:\Users\yourusername", so you could try

Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/Temp");

Or use the call System.IO.Path.GetTempPath which

checks for the existence of environment variables in the following order and uses the first path found:

The path specified by the TMP environment variable.

The path specified by the TEMP environment variable.

The path specified by the USERPROFILE environment variable.

The Windows directory.

Specifically Getting the System TEMP Path in C#

Perhaps you are looking for the
Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable method.

This usage gives you the user's %TEMP% folder:

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP");

such as
C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Temp

And this gives you the system's %TEMP% folder:

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TEMP", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Machine);

such as C:\WINDOWS\TEMP

Get the users temp folder path c++

std::wstring strTempPath;
wchar_t wchPath[MAX_PATH];
if (GetTempPathW(MAX_PATH, wchPath))
    strTempPath = wchPath;

Change wstring to string, wchar_t to char and GetTempPathW to GetTempPathA if you're not using Unicode.

In a .Net winforms application, how do I obtain the path the current user's temp folder?

Use System.IO.Path.GetTempPath().

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