Using environment shortcuts in directory.getfiles

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Hi,

I’m trying to write a simple job that will copy log files from the robot’s machine to a shared drive. I was going to do this with a “For Each” loop for directory.getfiles(“%localappdata%\UiPath\Logs”) but that does not seem to work - it seems to look for the directory I’m working in, plus “%localappdata%\UiPath\Logs”

Is there another way to use %localappdata% in this way? I can’t hard code the path as it will vary depending on the username of the robot

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If it varies only with the user name, then you can get the user name and build the path -

strUserName = Environment.UserName

And then you can use like below -

strPath = "C:\" + strUserName + "\UiPath\Logs\"

And also you get the path of special folders using the Environment object.

Reference -

Regards,
Karthik Byggari

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Hi @TimBall

Welcome to UiPath community buddy

you can use a move file activity that would move the file or even the folder to the destination you set,
pass the source folder path completely- mean the full path of logs folder in your system and you can find this by pressing the open logs option from execute menu in your studio
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go there and get the file path and set the destination path as well
One activity can do this buddy
for more info on this activity
https://activities.uipath.com/docs/move-file
Cheers

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Hi Tim,
you can create value per bot in orch and then you can use it so you can hard code the path
C:\Users<user name>\AppData\Local\UiPath\Logs

OR Try this

directory.getfiles( Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(
Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData),“UiPath”,“Logs”)

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