Hi Everyone, Sorry for the delay. I think my mail must have been held up for some reason. I've been checking mail as usual, over the last few days. But suddenly tonight it all came pouring in - 3 days worth!
I tested what alvinpenner said about pasting the whole path into Windows Explorer, with AppData hidden, and it does show the Inkscape dir.
I actually don't know what the % means, and neither can I speak to the WP page about environmental variables.
But with AppData hidden, I typed in %APPDATA% and it actually opened AppData/Roaming. So that does seem to work. But it seems that pasting the whole path in would be more direct.
So what is the consensus for how to give this instruction? I still would just lean towards saying "might be hidden" and leave it up to the user to get Windows support for that.
But whatever you guys think :-)
brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "su_v" <suv@...2638...> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 12:25 PM To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Trace Bitmap dialog does not appear
On 2015-08-25 15:42 (+0200), Mark Crutch wrote:
I believe that just putting %APPDATA% into the path field of a file manager window will get you to the right folder for the current user.
Any chance we could get confirmation that this works even if AppData itself is hidden?
I usually prefer to provide users with this information (pasting '%APPDATA%\inkscape' (without the quotes) into the address bar of Explorer to open Inkscape's user profile folder) because %APPDATA% works independent of the installed Windows version, whereas the actual location has changed, IIRC beginning with Vista (?).
And is the information on this page still accurate? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#Default_values
Regards, V
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