Getting My Documents path in Java

Question

I need to find my documents path using Java. The following code doesn't give me "accurate" loation

System.getProperty("user.home");

What should be the other way around?

P.S: I don't want to use the JFileChooser Dirty trick.

Answer 1

That's easy, JFileChooser finds it for you

new JFileChooser().getFileSystemView().getDefaultDirectory().toString(); 

I hope this helps someone

Answer 2

Since the most upvoted answer from @xchiltonx uses JFileChooser I would like to add that, regarding performance, this is faster than using JFileChooser:

FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getDefaultDirectory().getPath() 

In my PC, JFileChooser aproach needed 300ms, and calling FileSystemView directly needed less than 100ms.

Note: The question is a possible duplicate of How to find “My Documents” folder in Java