Alternative to Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal in UWP?

Question

For IOS and Android, Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal gives an accessible folder (I'm creating a log file there). However, in UWP, Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal gives something like 'D:\Documents' that Xamarin Forms can't write to. Hopefully I don't have to deal with something like Windows.Storage - that is, special casing all the code for UWP. Frankly, UWP is already buggy enough, but I would really like to include it in the development. Is there something simple I'm missing (for transparency...I'm new to Xamarin)? Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Hello larryleach-7993, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A,

Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal gives something like 'D:\Documents' that Xamarin Forms can't write to

The problem is Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal was under system namespace that can't be access in UWP platform. for your requirement, we suggest you use File System Helpers to get app's local folder that could access with path directly.

var localfolder = FileSystem.AppDataDirectory;  
File.WriteAllText(localfolder + "/log.text", "hello");  

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