Codex insists on opening sandbox projects on c: creating Documents under %USERPROFILE% when My documents is pointed to another location/drive
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.527.31326
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
when i open a new chat it creates projects under %userprofile%\Documents\Codex\... on c: drive, but there is no Documents folder there. Documents lives on d: and the my documents setting is pointing to d:\documents
I have spent time w codex trying to resolve and it told me to submit it as a bug.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: 019e764c-4687-7993-a9e8-c11aa0d5a7ad
Open a new chat without explicitly directing it to use a location. ask it to getlocation and it shows that it created a 'Documents' folder under %userprofile% and then made a subfolder for project.
What is the expected behavior?
codex follows what windows tells it to use. My documents points to d:\documents, so codex should only/ever work under d:\documents\Codex unless explicitly told to work elsewhere in the filesystem.
Additional information
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not dupe. this is a bug. The operating system has My Documents at d:\documents but the app insists on creating projects in a folder that does not exist, creating %USERPROFILE%\Documents before creating some sub folder under it for the project.
@iLLHunter definetely a dupe https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/20880
thanks @nos1609
Duplicate of #20880