Issue for running applications under %A_Appdata%

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cadudesun
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Post by cadudesun » Feb 11th, ’20, 15:01

Hi,

I'd appreciate your help regarding running applications under %A_Appdata% from Fastkeys start menu.

The two commands below works properly when running from a regular ahk script:

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Run, "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Programs\Moo.do\Moo.do.exe"

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Run, "%A_Appdata%\Local\Programs\Moo.do\Moo.do.exe"
However, when I add in Fastkeys Start Menu those commands, they don't work. The start menu "type" is set to command.

What would be a syntax that would work with Fastkeys?

PS.: I do not intend to use the full/absolute path with username since the Fastkeys menu should work from other user accounts too.

Thank you,
Carlos
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Tom
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Post by Tom » Feb 12th, ’20, 09:56

The second one works for me.
In the first one you should use %A_UserName%.
cadudesun
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Post by cadudesun » Feb 12th, ’20, 13:34

Tom wrote: Feb 12th, ’20, 09:56 In the first one you should use %A_UserName%.
Many thanks for the reply @Tom!
By using %A_UserName% as following I could run the script from Fastkeys start menu:

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Run, C:\Users\%A_UserName%\AppData\Local\Programs\Moo.do\Moo.do.exe
I tried to shorten the path to ignore C:\Users, but it doesn't work for me:

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Run, %A_UserName%\AppData\Local\Programs\Moo.do\Moo.do.exe
Do you know if this shortened path is supposed to work?
When I was trying "%A_Appdata%\Local\Programs\Moo.do\Moo.do.exe" that was my intention for shortening the path, although this doesn't work for me.
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