Location Placeholders

A number of functions in the ACtl API can take file or folder paths as arguments. On those arguments you can insert placeholders in between the characters < >.

For example, ACtl.getFile('<desktop>/todo.txt') will get the file todo.txt located in the desktop.

The following placeholders are always available:

<desktop>	The current user's desktop folder
<documents>	The current user's "My Documents" folder
<profile>	The current user's profile folder. e.g. C:\Users\John
<appdata>	The current user's Appplication data folder. e.g. C:\Users\John\AppData\Local
<windir>	The OS's installation directory. e.g. C:\Windows
<progFilesX86>	The Program Files folder for 32-bit programs. e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)
<recent>	The current user's "Recent items" folder
<startup>	The current user's startup folder

Additionally, all environment variables such as TEMP, USERNAME or SYSTEMDRIVE can also be used as placeholders.

For example, ACtl.saveFile('<temp>/userData.json', {name: 'John', age: 29}) will save the file userData.json to the user's temporary folder.

To see all existing environment variables for the current user, open a command window and enter the set command.

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