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3294697 - "Directory for Documents" and "current directory" in SAPGUI is wrong

Symptom

  • "Directory for Documents" and "current directory" should be displayed as "C:\Users\<ID>\Documents\SAP\SAP GUI\". 

But on the problematic PC, it's displaying a wrong directory e.g. "C:\Users\<ID>\Desktop\SAP\SAP GUI\". 

  • When starting SAPGUI, the \SAP\SAP GUI folder has been created in the wrong directory e.g. "C:\Users\<ID>\Desktop\". 

Or the "Directory for Documents" might be blank such as in:

"Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental." 


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Environment

SAPGUI release independent.

ABAP PLATFORM - Application Server ABAP.

SAP NetWeaver.

Product

ABAP platform all versions ; SAP NetWeaver all versions ; SAP S/4HANA all versions

Keywords

Blank, directory for documents, wrong, download path, document path, file explorer, PDF, unaccessible, cannot download, unacessible, could not view, cannot view, empty, lifetime,  Local Data, SapWorkDir, SHGetFolderPath. , KBA , BC-FES-GUI , SAP GUI for Windows , Problem

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