Combine %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% in the prefpath statement?

[Harry MacDonald]

I realize this is more of a "windows" question than PLSD, but there's some pretty clever people on this forum, so I figured I'd give it a go:

I'm trying to set a path in params.ini to each user's "home" directory for storing personal preferences. Problem is I can't find a way to combine %HOMEDRIVE% and %HOMEPATH% in the prefpath statement. Here are the current values returned (correctly) by querying the system variables directly for my own info:

C:\>ECHO %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\apps32\PLSQL Developer\Preferences

Result is
Y:\HM91405\apps32\PLSQL Developer\Preferences

Yet if i enter in params.ini as

prefpath=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\apps32\PLSQL Developer\Preferences

then a new %HOMEPATH% directory is created in the application directory (which in this particular case is already on drive Y instead of Y:\hm91405\ being used.

Any suggestions? I know I could use appdata, but I am trying to maintain the users' preferences directly on their personal network share, and that is not how appdata is managed in our environment.

Thanx,
HMD

 

[Marco Kalter]

This cannot be accomplished thru Params.ini, but I have added environment variable translation for params.ini to the list of enhancement requests.

The only way to accomplish this is to use the prefpath command-line parameter. In that case Windows will do the translation.