Redirect c:\Users\[user]\AppDataLocal\AutoIt v3\Aut2Exe - (Moved)

[JensG]

Dear all,

When calling in an .au3 script

ShellExecuteWait("...\tools\AutoIt3\Aut2Exe\Aut2exe_x64.exe", "/in createSetup.au3 /out " & $exeName & " /icon Setup.ico", $autoItDir)

autoit packs the files temporarily in c:\Users\[user]\AppDataLocal\AutoIt v3\Aut2Exe

Windows Defender randomly deletes the temp files in this directory, and so the build fails. We would like to redirect autoit to write these temp files in a directory we know it is excluded from Defender. Is there a way to accomplish that ?

[Jos]

Moved to the appropriate AutoIt General Help and Support forum, as the Developer General Discussion forum very clearly states:

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[Jos]

In aut2exe the environment variable  %LOCALAPPDATA% is used as base and concatenated with "AutoIt v3\Aut2Exe"" for the target temp directory.

[argumentum]

38 minutes ago, JensG said:

excluded from Defender. Is there a way to accomplish

...you could also add a "folder exemption" to "c:\Users\[user]\AppDataLocal\AutoIt v3\Aut2Exe" in your PC

[JensG]

Thanks a lot for your replies! Unfortunately, setting LOCALAPPDATA before starting autoit to "D:\FOOBAR\Temp" with "SET LOCALAPPDATA='D:\FOOBAR\Temp" did not impress auto it much. But it worked in general as you can see that a MS  application used the dir as temp dir. But not autoit, as you can see below. Autoit still uses the user's AppData dir for zipping.

Also using SetEnv from within the script or setting LOCALAPPDATA before compilaton of the script did not do it.

Do you have any other ideas? Thanks in advance!