How do I find the user's 'Documents' folder with Java in OS X?

Question

I'd like to create a directory in the user's 'Documents' folder, but so far I've only found out how to get the user's home directory:

javax.swing.JFileChooser fr = new javax.swing.JFileChooser();
javax.swing.filechooser.FileSystemView fw = fr.getFileSystemView();
this.userDirectory = fw.getDefaultDirectory();

In Windows the above code returns the 'My Documents' directory, which is great, that's where the new documents are supposed to go. On OS X it only returns the home directory.

Adding 'Documents' to the returned path would cause problems with localization.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

System.getProperty("user.home")+File.separator+"Documents";

And don't worry about with localization, look:

macb:Documents laullon$ pwd
/Users/laullon/Documents

My OS X is in Spanish.

Answer 2

On mac (as far as I know all recent 10.x variants) the "My Documents" directory is located at (from root):
/Users/< username >/Documents
Thus it is in the "Documents" sub-directory within the home directory for the user.

Answer 3

You want to use Apple's eio.FileManager extension:

    static public String documentsDirectory()
            throws java.io.FileNotFoundException {
        // From CarbonCore/Folders.h
        final String kDocumentsDirectory = "docs";
        return com.apple.eio.FileManager.findFolder(
            com.apple.eio.FileManager.kUserDomain,
            com.apple.eio.FileManager.OSTypeToInt(kDocumentsDirectory)
        );
    }

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