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Question

Is there a way to reach this address safely?

Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\After Effects\22.2

I know you can get to roaming by calling:

getSystemPath(SystemPath.USER_DATA)

on CSInterface, but I want to make it specifically to where the preferences files are of the current version.

Is there some method that I can use? Or alternatively, read the preferences file in any other way?

I don't want to use "app.preferences.getPrefAsString" to read specific preferences.

Thank you.

VKSp · Answer

Considering, that Adobe has been following this pattern %appdata%\Adobe\After Effects\{major}.{minor} in the past, you could simply get the current app version (app.version) and extract major / minor version (see screenshot below). I'd verify that this pattern is kept on a few older versions on After Effects. Additionally you could implement a fallback by getting the subfolders of %appdata%\Adobe\After Effects\ choosing the folder that is closest to your current version.

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