[Mono-bugs] [Bug 50532][Min] Changed - Environment.SpecialFolders paths

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Changed by bmaurer@users.sf.net.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50532

--- shadow/50532	2003-11-04 18:27:51.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/50532.tmp.4331	2003-11-05 09:34:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -72,6 +72,25 @@
 
 I think we should apply this.  The only question is of course, making
 sure that the directory exists, but I think thta can be handled by the
 caller.
 
 Miguel
+
+------- Additional Comments From bmaurer@users.sf.net  2003-11-05 09:34 -------
+Well, in MS the contract is that the folder that is returned *always* 
+exists. IMHO we should keep the contract on Mono. How much of a pref 
+issue would checking be? We could do something like:
+
+static bool checkedAppDataExist = false;
+
+static string GetAppDataFolder () {
+    string folder;
+    // get the string in folder
+    if (!checkedAppDataExist && !Directory.Exists (folder) {
+        // create folder
+    }
+    checkedAppDataExist = true;
+}
+
+Let's also make sure each and every SpecialFolder returns a nice 
+path, I remember we had problems with this in Monodoc.