Creating directory in Application Support or %appdata%

Question

I am already familiar with creating files and putting them in "user.home". I'm on Mac, so don't know much about PC's folder, but in my library, there is Application Support. Is there a way to place a directory there and also in PC's %appdata%?

Answer 1

The AppData folder on Windows is "{user.home}\Local Settings\ApplicationData";

You can get it using this:

    String dataFolder = System.getProperty("user.home") + "\\Local Settings\\ApplicationData";

or by this, but it's only works on Windows because the env variable 'APPDATA' only available under Windows.

    String dataFolder = System.getenv("APPDATA");  

Fore more information, you can check it out How to get local application data folder in Java?