'Using electron-builder, during the install of an app, is there a way to auto-create a folder in the user's "Documents" folder in Windows?
What am I trying to do?
When installing an Electron application on a Windows machine, I would like it to also put a folder in a user's "Documents" area, for example a folder called "Guides". The way I suspect the address of where to put it would be "C:\Users{some-user}\Documents".
What is the code that currently tries to do that?
package.json
{
...
"build": {
"extraFiles": [
{
"from": "./Guides",
"to": "C:\Users\{some-user}\Documents"
"filter": [
"./Guides"
]
}
],
}
...
}
What do I expect the result to be?
To have the "Guides" folder in the "Documents" folder.
What is the actual result?
Does nothing from what I can tell.
What I think the problem could be?
I'm not sure if electron-builder even has the authority to create a directory like so into a user's Documents. If there a solution, I was wondering how it would be done so it's adaptive to any user, not a hard-coded user variable.
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