v12 config.ini locations.

[wiseman-timelord]

Mantella v11 saves the config.ini in a safe location of the mantella dir, however, with regards to v12...

• I moved my documents folder from C:\users\username\my documents\ to a different drive, and I did it the proper way, and for some reason when I installed Mantella v12 and run it, it insists upon using that vanilla windows docs dir on C: for config.ini. No other programs are having this issue, and when I click on the fav link for documents, it is not the one with mantella in it, its the correct one on the other drive.

[Leidtier]

Thanks for reporting, I'll take a look at it.

[wiseman-timelord]

According to GPT4...

• Using ctypes and Windows Shell API The Windows Shell API has a function called SHGetFolderPath (or its modern counterpart SHGetKnownFolderPath) that can be used to get the correct path of special folders. The following code snippet demonstrates how to use ctypes to retrieve the path of the "My Documents" folder:

import ctypes
from ctypes import wintypes
import os

def get_documents_folder():
    # Define constants for the SHGetFolderPath function
    CSIDL_PERSONAL = 5  # CSIDL for "My Documents" folder
    SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT = 0

    # Buffer to store the folder path
    buf = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(wintypes.MAX_PATH)

    # Load shell32.dll and call SHGetFolderPathW
    shell32 = ctypes.windll.shell32
    result = shell32.SHGetFolderPathW(None, CSIDL_PERSONAL, None, SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, buf)

    if result == 0:  # S_OK
        return buf.value
    else:
        raise Exception("Failed to get 'My Documents' folder path")

documents_path = get_documents_folder()
print("My Documents folder is located at:", documents_path)

• Using os and os.path.expanduser You can also use the os.path.expanduser function, which expands the ~ to the current user's home directory. This method works well when dealing with paths relative to the user's home directory.

  
  import os

def get_documents_folder_using_expanduser():

Use os.path.expanduser to get the path relative to the user's home directory

home_directory = os.path.expanduser("~")
documents_folder = os.path.join(home_directory, "Documents")

return documents_folder

Fetch and print the path

documents_path = get_documents_folder_using_expanduser() print("My Documents folder (via expanduser) is located at:", documents_path)

[Leidtier]

I have commited a PR #343 to fix this. @wiseman-timelord I used your second solution because I also stumbled over it when researching the issue. Could you please check if this simple change is enough to fix the issue for you?