windows 11 add in folder location issue

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Hi,

In windows 11 the user folder for the add-ins, is different then the windows 10 folder.

windows 10 defined "C:\Users\arthurknoors\AppData\Roaming"

windows 11 defines now "C:\Users\arthu\AppData\Roaming" which uses only the first 5 characters of the user name.

In the Inventor add-in templates provide from Autodesk is still defining the path with the username complete.

"C:\Users\arthurknoors\AppData\Roaming"

like in this article:

https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-change-user-profile-folder-name/

how to solve the issue from exporting the add-ins to a different location for both windows 10 and windows 11 machines. I do not want to create a different built for these environtment.

[JelteDeJong]

I don't know whet tool you use for "exporting the add-ins", but in most tools, you can use variables. You could work around the problem by using the variable %appdata% instead of "C:\Users\arthurknoors\AppData\Roaming".

If you created your own tool for exporting the add-ins then you could use this line of code to get the correct path:

Dim myInstalationPath As String = System.Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%APPDATA%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins")
'result: C:\Users\hjalte\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins

(I don't have Windows 11 so I only assume this works.)

Another option would be to make your addon not user-specific and not save the addin in the user profile. We have these 4 locations to save our addins. 2 of those are not in the user profile.

Your addin is for all Users, Version Independent
Windows 7/8.1/10 - %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Autodesk\Inventor Addins\

Your addin is for all Users, Version Dependent
Windows 7/8.1/10 - %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Addins\

Your addin is user-specific, Version Dependent
In Window 7/8.1/10 - %APPDATA%\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Addins\

Your addin is user-specific, Version Independent
In Window 7/8.1/10 - %APPDATA%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Think that the last win update solved this issue.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Still there is something weird with the excisting add ins from before windows 11.

The the post event works well with debug, but not with the release.

This is the Post built from the standard add-in template:

WHERE MT.EXE
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 call "$(DevEnvDir)..\..\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
mt.exe -manifest "$(ProjectDir)KnoorsInventorToolsRenameSolidBodies.X.manifest" -outputresource:"$(TargetPath)";#2
			XCopy "$(TargetPath)" "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\" /Y /R
		    XCopy "$(ProjectDir)Autodesk.KnoorsInventorToolsRenameSolidBodies.Inventor.addin" "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\" /Y /R

For the build debug it accepts the path without error.

For the build release it does not and comes with an error.

cannot find path;

C:\Users\arthurknoors\AppData\Roaming.

The actual path with %Apdata% is C:\Users\arthu\AppData...

Is there someone with the same issue?