Path for getting the folder when program run as Service

Question

I have an executable that is to be run as a Service in windows. Since the service runs as Local system, what should be the folder I should be writing any data the program uses. As currently, I use %LocalAppData% but when the exe runs as Service it points me to

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData

I used following code:

std::string GetLocalAppDataPath()
{
    HANDLE hfile;
    TCHAR szPath[MAX_PATH];
    if(SUCCEEDED(SHGetFolderPath(NULL,CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA,NULL,0, szPath))) 
    {
        std::string path = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(szPath);
        boost::replace_all(path, "\\", "\\\\");
        return path;
    }
}

If I call the above code as:

std::string app_data_path = GetLocalAppDataPath();
std::string log_folder_path = app_data_path + "\\\\lpa\\\\output\\\\";

I get C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\lpa\output\ instead of my own Local App Data Folder. So Should I be using other folder that LocalSystem can access.?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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did you try this: Get CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA path for any user on Windows

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Dec 08 '14 at 08:58

Ramanathan Kathiresan

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I am using C++ for exe – Mahadeva Dec 08 '14 at 08:59

Path for getting the folder when program run as Service

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