Using environment variables in profile and vvlauncher

[jblender]

I'd like to make a generic FSF file so I can easily install it along with ViceVersa on different machines using a custom MSI file. I plan on backing up everyone's My Documents folder to a shared network location. To make this easy I'd like to be able to set the source in the profile to "%userprofile%\My Documents" and the target to "%homedrive%\My Documents Backup\".

The problem is that the variables are not being resolved and I get a "path does not contain a drive indication" error. A similar error occurs in VVlauncher when you try to use a variable in the path to the profile. Any ideas on how I could make this work?

Thanks,
James

[TGRMN Software]

Hello,
in ViceVersa you need to use < instead of %
so "<userprofile>\My Documents" instead of "%userprofile%\My Documents"
and "<homedrive>\My Documents Backup\" instead of "%homedrive%\My Documents Backup\"
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[Guest]

I have a batch file that creates an environment variable named latest_folder and it does not appear to work with ViceVersa. I have tried with both <latest_folder> and %latest_folder% in the source folder path and neither work. So if I have "S:\~snap\<latest_folder>\servbackups\" as the source and click compare I get the error message " [ERROR] Source: "S:\~snap\<latest_folder>\servbackups\", invalid parameter syntax, unknown parameter <latest_folder>"

If I open a command promt and do a "dir s:\~snap\%latest_folder%" it will display the content of the dir.

[TGRMN Software]

Very strange, I need to try this out...
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[Guest]

were you able to get this to work?

[TGRMN Software]

I think you are right, I have entered this as an issue to be fixed in our database
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