frontend: Use default location for user settings as fallback #12040
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When a unique path is set up as the location for user settings, profiles, or scene collections, migrating the files from one computer to another will lead to confusing error messages as the original paths might not exist on the new machine. The default directories for configuration files are already created by this point, so using those paths as a fallback should enable OBS Studio to also create the corresponding fallback settings files.
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Description
Enables OBS Studio to fall back on default paths for settings, profiles, and scene collections when configured paths do not exist.
Motivation and Context
When a unique path is set up as the location for user settings, profiles, or scene collections, migrating the files from one computer to another will lead to confusing error messages as the original paths might not exist on the new machine.
The default directories for configuration files are already created by this point, so using those paths as a fallback should enable OBS Studio to also create the corresponding fallback settings files.
While this might lead to a confusing "in-between" state as OBS Studio will just carry on launching, creating fallbacks for everything, this is in line with current behaviour in the rest of the application.
How Has This Been Tested?
Tested locally with bad paths set up in
global.iniand also with an emptyglobal.inito ensure that no "empty migration" takes place.Types of changes
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