Windows: Incorrect userprofile path usage

A quick look into the debug log shows that ueli is not using the correct way to specify userprofile-related paths. For example, if I set my Desktop under D:\Users\froyo\Desktop, you won’t be able to find it via C:\Users\froyo\Desktop. (Edit: the next sentence is wrong:) The correct usage is %userprofile%\Desktop

[FlotterCodername]

Feels like the ball is in nodejs’s court. @oliverschwendener I’m closing this

[amrbashir]

I see, Let me explain how ueli finds the desktop folder, Ueli calls os.homedir which will use windows’s %userprofile% variable and that would return in your case C:\Users\fabia then Ueli adds \Desktop to the end. Now, In your case what happens is Ueli uses powershell to list what’s in the Desktop folder at the path determined by the process above, and powershell reports that the given path doesn’t exist and that’s true.

File Explorer keeps track of the known folders location somehow and redirects you correctly. The location of these folders can be accessed using native tools, but that would make the development harder than it should be, since Ueli only uses this folder as a default location for the application search plugin which can simply be removed by the user if causes issues.

Your situation is very specific to be honest and In my opinion, this doesn’t qualify to be a bug. The simplest solution for people who changed their Desktop folder location is simply removing it from the application search plugin and adding the correct path. You will have to set it up once and forget about it.