Member Avatar for Yorkiebar14

Hello,

I have been using StreamWriters for a long and time and it has always worked but now I seem to be getting an Access Denied error while trying to save to the current users Desktop...

Dim savePath As String = "C:\Users\Josh\Desktop\EpiPhone\029.csv"
Using sw As New StreamWriter(savePath)
    '...Rest of code...
End Using

What are the most common problems with Access Denied while writing to the Desktop?

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Member Avatar for Reverend Jim

The only thing that comes to mind is that you are not actually using the current user's name. Try using

Dim savePath As String = "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop\EpiPhone\029.csv"
Member Avatar for Yorkiebar14

I am definately using my username because if I go in File Explorer, click on desktop and copy the address path it says the exact same as the savePath String. I'll still check to see if your code works though, thanks for the suggestion.

Member Avatar for G_Waddell

Hi,

I think you can get the current users desktop from the environment.specialfolders there is a .desktop (for the desktop virtual,) and a .desktopdirectory for the physical file directory.

commented: Right. I forgot about that. +12
Member Avatar for Jamblaster

To find the desktop you could use the my namespace.

My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop
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