Vista - HOMEPATH

This post relates to the HELP post I put up a few days ago. I found the
root cause of the problem. I am using the HOMEPATH to find where the end
users desktop, favorites, etc...live. Then I copy their stuff up to their
mapped user directory. The reason why the copy is not working for everyone
is that the HOMEPATH is only returning a "\" for a very few people. I
simply put up a message box to catch it as follows....

'Set Homepath
strHomePath = WshSysEnv("HOMEPATH")
msgbox strHomePath

The script should return something like "\documents and settings\username".
But for a few folks it will only return the "\". I am able to logon to the
same machine and run the script under my credentials and it works great. I
am assuming it means something is hosed or corrupted with the users profile.
Do you have any idea why it will not return the correct HOMEPATH for the
user?

James

I finally found a fix to this problem!

I changed from:

strHomePath = WshSysEnv("HOMEPATH")

To:

strHomePath = WshSysEnv("USERPROFILE")

All is working perfectly now!

So, if anyone wants a simple script to backup a user profile (documents
only) to a mapped network drive, let me know and I will post it. Once I
update my ProfileRestore I can post that as well, if anyone wants it.
Thanks to everyone who helped me out these past few weeks, you know who you
are! Now I feel like I might be able to help others looking for the same
type of stuff.



James

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