Two posts in one day should show you I’m excited about PowerShell.
I wanted to update the script from my last post to find my My Documents folder so if I hop to Vista I won’t get an error, and I found it slightly difficult to figure out how to use Environment.GetFolderPath because I got a lot of errors trying to use the Environment.SpecialFolder enumeration. It turns out if you pass the string value for the enumeration value you want, you get basically what you want:
$myDocs = $myDocs = [System.Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments")
Set-Location $myDocs
Set-Variable -name home -value $myDocs -force
Apparently, you can also use flags enumerations.
To access you enum you need to use a + as Specialfolder is a “subclass” of environment
[Environment+SpecialFolder]
to list the values :
[enum]::GetNames([Environment+SpecialFolder])
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