FPaths not working in packaged game

Development Programming & Scripting C++
1

Hi,

I’m trying to read text from a file in a packaged game but am having some problems with FPaths.
In my plugin, I am returning a string for the file location, It works perfectly in the editor but not in the packaged game and the other functions of the BP Plugin work fine.



FString UBPPluginBPLibrary::GetCSVSaveLocation()
{
    return FPaths::ConvertRelativePathToFull(FPaths::GameDir());
}

After looking at the wiki, I have also tried the following

none of which seem to work and the string is left blank.

Edit: Engine Version 4.21

2

Just as a test, try FPaths::ProjectPersistentDownloadDir() and see what you get back from a packaged project. That’s what I use in my DLC loader and it returns a location,

Different platforms have different restrictions, that one should work on all of them.

3

This also works the same way.
Using FPaths::ProjectPersistentDownloadDir() I get the following in editor:
…/…/…/…/…/…/Documents/Unreal Projects/MyProject/PersistentDownloadDir
and blank in a packaged build

Are there any permissions I need to set for the plugin to be able to access files?

4

That seems odd. Not sure if it’ll help, but try including the AssetRegistry module.

Shouldn’t be any plugins required and that string should not be blank in a packaged build. I mean, it’s just a string.

What platform are you running it on when it’s packaged?

5

Running on Windows 10