Scope for localLow on windows

[delicate patrol]

Wondering how I can add a glob pattern to include the AppData/localLow directory

[royal jacinth]

interesting question, and apparently a pretty rare usecase. none of the rust path crates offer a function for that (only local and roaming)...
anyway, i guess the only way to do that at the moment is to do something like $HOME/AppData/LocalLow/whatever

[uncut moon]

Probably not that rare. Just very windows specific. https://youtu.be/3XjSTG-oIMw

[royal jacinth]

yeah i know what the folder is used for, but i never saw someone actually using it (or someone asking for it here)

on my system it's basically empty too x)

[uncut moon]

On my manjaro system it's also very unused 😬

The use case makes sense in theory. Anyway! I think this LocalLow folder just wouldn't map well to something on other platforms, so I think if crates try to offer cross-platform path helpers I'm not surprised it's left out.

So using something based off of $HOME is probably what you want to do for now. Perhaps for Tauri it's worth considering if we want to create an Option<PathBuf> method for it anyway since it could return None on other OSes

[delicate patrol]

I'm making a save editor for a game which happens to store its saves in localLow

cause there's no standard for save location

[delicate patrol]

👌

[royal jacinth]

The worst location for saves is my precious Documents folder Like, i'm fine with Documents/My Games/ but why do most just create a whole new folder in Documents

[delicate patrol]

fr lol

one of my games misspells My Games to MyGames lol