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Re: cygpath -AO


On 3/3/2010 12:54 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin <dot> com]
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Don't feed the spammers.  And
actually, all of this header information is superfluous.  It's better to
just delete it.

Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 17:23
To: cygwin <at> cygwin <dot>  com
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ditto.

Subject: Re: cygpath -AO

On 3/3/2010 12:13 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
$ cygpath -AO
cygpath: failed to retrieve special folder path

WJFFM. If you want to report a problem to the list, please see the problem reporting guidelines found here:

<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>


With just -O, it correctly returns the path to My Documents, but All Users doesn't have a My Documents folder--instead has a Shared Documents folder--so I'm guessing that is what is tripping up cygpath.

cygcheck.out attached.

Thanks. Still see no problem, even on XP (I first tried W7). Mine returns the "Documents" folder for "All Users", which is what I would expect. Perhaps you don't have one of these or don't have access. If that's the case, the message you get is quite logical.

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