profiles dir

hi all
and sorry for my wobbly english...

i have one problem and two ways i'd like to solve it... but I'm not able to
do what i thought, lol

in a .cmd file i need to change/set the volume to the one in wich i set the
"documents and settings" directory.
notice that i used unattended.sif to set it in different volumes , not "C"
....

i know i can retrieve %userprofile% variable

but if e.g. I have "r:\docs_and_sets\james"

and i need to retrieve the "r:\docs_and_sets" value (wothout the %username%)
, what variable i have to look for?

or

how can i know that the right volume is "R:" ?

i don't know how to do the string operations or how to retrieve the
variables with the correct value

OSes: win2000, XP, (Vista)

thanx!

"Bertoldino" wrote in message

> hi all
> and sorry for my wobbly english...
>
> i have one problem and two ways i'd like to solve it... but I'm not able
> to
> do what i thought, lol
>
> in a .cmd file i need to change/set the volume to the one in wich i set
> the
> "documents and settings" directory.
> notice that i used unattended.sif to set it in different volumes , not "C"
> ...
>
> i know i can retrieve %userprofile% variable
>
> but if e.g. I have "r:\docs_and_sets\james"
>
> and i need to retrieve the "r:\docs_and_sets" value (wothout the
> %username%)
> , what variable i have to look for?
>
> or
>
> how can i know that the right volume is "R:" ?
>
> i don't know how to do the string operations or how to retrieve the
> variables with the correct value
>
> OSes: win2000, XP, (Vista)
>
> thanx!
>
>

You can extract the drive letter like so:
@echo off
echo Drive Letter = %UserProfile:~0,2%

and the folder name like so:
@echo off
call echo Profile folder = %UserProfile:%Username%=%

(provided that %UserName% is set as expected)