How to get folder path from Known folder GUID in Delphi

依然范特西╮ 提交于 2019-12-05 07:54:46

Simply call the SHGetKnownFolderPath API function.

Since this function was added in Vista, it won't be declared in the library units that shipped with Delphi 7. So you'd need to declare it yourself.

type
  KNOWNFOLDERID = TGuid;

function SHGetKnownFolderPath(
  const rfid: KNOWNFOLDERID;
  dwFlags: DWORD; 
  hToken: THandle; 
  out ppszPath: PWideChar
): HResult; stdcall; external 'Shell32.dll';

Now, since this function was added in Vista, attempts to call it on XP will lead to failures. So, I would recommend dealing with this by using CSIDL functions rather than the Vista known folder APIs.

Eli Algranti

You cannot build an array of known folder ids and paths as there is no assurance the paths will be the same in every system. There are default paths for known folders but they are just defaults, they can be changed. Many corporate environments do this to, for example, move the user's documents folder to a network share that can be backed up more easily.

In any case a link in the link you provided contains all the information you need:

SHGetKnownFolderPath is the Win API function that returns the path of the known folder. Note that you need to release the unicode char pointer returned yourself by calling CoTaskMemFree.

If you preffer working with a COM object, you can use IKNOWNFOLDER instead.

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