[tor-bugs] #7956 [Tor]: Tor uses Roaming (remote) AppData, not Local

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#7956: Tor uses Roaming (remote) AppData, not Local
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:
  cypherpunks            |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
     Priority:  major    |    Version:  Tor: unspecified
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  tor-client win32 024-backport
   Resolution:           |  AppData Roaming Local Windows
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by GITNE):

 {{{SHGetFolderPath()}}} is the way to go as long as Tor wants to support
 Windows 2000 and later. Don't get yourself confused by this function being
 marked as deprecated. Before Windows Vista this was the way to get any
 special profile folders.

 {{{
 SHGetFolderPathW(
         0,
         CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA | CSIDL_FLAG_CREATE,
         NULL,
         SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT,
         ptrPathWchar_t
 );
 }}}

 And by the way, this has '''nothing''' to do with COM. CSIDL stands for
 "constant special item ID list".

 Oh, and I strongly encourage you to use the Unicode version of it
 {{{SHGetFolderPathW()}}} because paths returned by this function may
 contain characters that are outside of current user's ANSI codepage.

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