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wschmidt YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	get temp folder of system or user Nov 28th, 2008, 9:05am   Hi, how can I get the temp folder from the system (eg. C:\windows\temp) or the current user (C:\documents...\temp) or all user? common: how do I access (get) system specific variables? regards, walter

JohnG Ex Member	Re: get temp folder of system or user Reply #1 - Nov 28th, 2008, 11:10am   On windows it's stored in the environment variable TMP or TEMP I believe, and can be accessed with: String tmp=System.getenv("TMP"); On unix I think you have to just assume /tmp is the temp directory

mreynolds YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 9 OR	Re: get temp folder of system or user Reply #2 - Dec 8th, 2008, 7:22pm   A more consistent way is to simply ask the runtime, via : System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"); Or, if you simply want a temporary directory that can be cleaned up, File has a static method to create tempdirs.