Avalonia DevTools crash app on Windows on corporate laptops about avalonia HOT 9 CLOSED

Conventions.DefaultScreenshotsRoot should probably return null on exception and/or we need fallbacks. It is always accessed on startup regardless of config, so if it fails, then it's fine if SuggestedStartLocation gets set to null. Better than always crashing with no mitigation. I'm not a fan of I/O in a property getter either.

I'm still unsure what the system configuration issue is though since the directory is supposed to exist on @drweb86's system.

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When i launch app via Ctrl+F5 - it works fine.

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Basically idea is to add support for corporate environments?

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For reference: #14069.

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I am guessing OneDrive is involved somehow and there is some weird folder redirection happening.

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Directory is indeed exists. And yes, OneDrive create symbolic links to other directories.

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As the docs explain, Directory.CreateDirectory ensure that the folder exists (eg: Linux does not have Screenshots folder) and creates it if it is not found.

Create a simple console app with this code and check if it works

                var dir = System.IO.Path.Combine(
                    Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyPictures), "Screenshots");
                Directory.CreateDirectory(dir);

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Hi. Bug stopped to reproduce since today. I don't know why. Probably Microsoft Defender was blocking it. I tried to delete screenshots folder and it still works. Also I tried to rename folder. First time - name remains the same, from second time - it gets changed. And anyway in this case it also works fine.

Console app also works good.

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closing as not reproducible anymore.

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