Ok, so I'm trying to set the enviroment variable in NSIS for a program, and this one is from John's aMSN launcher for the UserProfile path. I tried this, and the programs settings are created in the Data folder under "Data\settings\Application Data\AppName"
However, when I try to change the "USERPROFILE" variable to the "APPDATA" variable, which I'm quite sure is also a Windows variable, it won't work? I noticed in say the command prompt launcher, the below is exactly the same, just with the "ComSpec" variable, so I don't understand why the "APPDATA" variable is not working? Can anyone help me out?
UserProfileEnvironment:
;=== Set the %USERPROFILE% directory if we have a path
System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("USERPROFILE", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY").r0'
THIS Won't work...
UserProfileEnvironment:
;=== Set the %USERPROFILE% directory if we have a path
System::Call 'Kernel32::SetEnvironmentVariableA(t, t) i("APPDATA", "$SETTINGSDIRECTORY").r0'
The section title doesn't matter because it's just a reference for the launcher to go to, and the ;=== is ignored, so I don't understand what's wrong?
Does anyone else? 
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APPDATA is hit or miss. Some apps use it, some don't. Even USERPROFILE can be hit or miss. Some apps use it, some pull it from the registry (Sudoku did that before I modified it).
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Well that's good to know, saves me more hours of trying to figure it out.
What do you think is better, having "Data\settings\Application Data\ultraMaGe"
Or just copying the settings back and forth? ultraMaGe is just a fairly decent file manager on SF that I wanted to post in beta for the people who want a portable file manager. Thought, I was gonna try and recompile it with nicer icons, so I'll check into that as well.
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Yoink! *steals ultraMaGe Portable* Mine now! (Kidding :P)
And you should probably just copy/rename. It's guaranteed to work (as long as the program isn't stupid).
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I have something in the pipeline which needs the temp variable to be set to the drive so it doesnt fill up the users temp folder and I am thankful for the clarification as I played with the environment variables stuff in NSIS for some time now.
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