Get-SystemFolderPathForDownload.ps1
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function Get-SystemFolderPathForDownload { $GuidDownloads = '374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B' $signature = @' [DllImport("shell32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]public extern static int SHGetKnownFolderPath( ref Guid folderId, uint flags, IntPtr token, out IntPtr pszProfilePath); '@ $GetType = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $signature -Name 'GetKnownFolders' -Namespace 'SHGetKnownFolderPath' -Using "System.Text" -PassThru -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $ptr = [intptr]::Zero [void]$GetType::SHGetKnownFolderPath([Ref]$GuidDownloads, 0, 0, [ref]$ptr) $result = [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringUni($ptr) [System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::FreeCoTaskMem($ptr) if ([string]::IsNullOrWhiteSpace($result)) { # using multiple env variables to find temp folder. Per OS, only one should contain data: $result = Join-Path -Path "$env:temp$env:tmpdir" -ChildPath Downloads } return $result } |