Write to AppData directory using InnoIDE?

Question

I need to write to the:

C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\AppName

folder during the setup process. I'm using the InnoIDE program for setup, and it's awesome. However, it seems to be lacking an 'AppData' special folder for easily accessing that directory.

For example, you can use: DestDir: "{app}" to write the application directory.

But how do you get to AppData? Is there a list of all the preset DestDir options?

Cellophane

An elevated setup can not reliably write to the user's profile. This should be left to the application or write data to {commonappdata} for the application to read from. – Lowbrow

Answer 1

Arg, got it.

{userappdata} → C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\AppName

as found here: http://news.jrsoftware.org/news/innosetup/msg74694.html

Cellophane

This do not work.. i have to write the the same folder... and do not work. Am using Windows 7 64 bits. – Calculous

Answer 2

As you said in your own answer, {userappdata} is the one you need. The help manual has a list of all the Inno Setup directory constants.

Highstepper

Answer 3

It is not recommend to write to AppData directory using InnoIDE. You better save user-specific data to a shared location first (e.g. under {app}) and have your application copy it from there on first startup.

more https://mcmap.net/q/1172258/-inno-setup-install-script-and-windows-7

Grindstone