config file in user home

[Gaz]

i'm using user.home to get the home directory of the user and store a
config file there however in college the user home dir returns
c:\username\home however users don't have write permissons to that dir
so I need to be able to save it in H:\user\home but I need to be able to
save it in the users home dir on all other machines anyone got any ideas
or a work around?

 

[kaeli]

i'm using user.home to get the home directory of the user and store a
config file there however in college the user home dir returns
c:\username\home however users don't have write permissons to that dir
so I need to be able to save it in H:\user\home but I need to be able to
save it in the users home dir on all other machines anyone got any ideas
or a work around?

Check permissions before attempting to write.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html#canWrite()

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[Jacob]

i'm using user.home to get the home directory of the user and store a
config file there however in college the user home dir returns
c:\username\home however users don't have write permissons to that dir
so I need to be able to save it in H:\user\home but I need to be able to
save it in the users home dir on all other machines anyone got any ideas
or a work around?

Use the JDK Preferences package for this purpose.
On MS-based systems the configuration will go in
the "Windows Registry", on Unix it will be stored
somewhere underneeth the user home dir. Point is
that you don't need to know; JDK ensures a valid
location.