Java access Shellfolder

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I am trying to access an Shellfolder like: "Shell:::{35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}" via Java on a Windows PC ... but I havn't found a way to do so up to now.

Is this generally possible with Java? Recently I uncovered the sun.awt class "ShellFolder"... Does this class provide the abilitiy to access such an folder?

thanks for your help Ripei

JRL · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-10 12:36:45Z

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I think an easy way to do it would be to create a temp folder with that name, e.g.:

    File file = new File("c:/temp/AnyName.{35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01}");
    boolean success = file.mkdir();

Works on Windows 7 for other GUIDs (seems {35786D3C-B075-49b9-88DD-029876E11C01} is for XP), don't know about prior versions.

answered Apr 10, 2010 at 12:36

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Ripei Over a year ago

Although the return-value is false... it works!! thank you :)

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