where to locate user config file for java app on windows?

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i'm creating a java library mylib that will work with default settings but user can create his config file to override those settings. the question is: what is a standard location of such file on windows?

on linux it's: ~/.mylib/* or ~/.config/mylib/*

regarding windows i found some answers saying many different locations: %LOCALAPPDATA%, %USERPROFILE% or %APPDATA% and then ./mylib/*. i also found some answers introducing $HOMEDRIVE and $HOMEPATH variables.

so where should my lib expect user to store his config file?

yep. but i don't know if user home is a standard location on windows. on linux for example a lot of apps store their configs not directly in user home but somewhere deeper. what's the standard on windows? — piotrek, Aug 04 '17 at 14:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 04 '17 at 15:30

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%APPDATA%/appname/configfile

This is the standard location and it's used by most windows applications. This blog post from msdn is the most authoritative source I could find.

answered Aug 04 '17 at 15:30

Oleg

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