fix: add fallbacks for getting documents folder path (#127)

Co-authored-by: Sascha <sascha@dev.com>
Co-authored-by: Saschl <noreply@saschl.com>

apps/server/src/utilities/pathUtil.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,28 @@
 import getPath from 'platform-folders';
 import * as path from 'path';
+import { Logger } from '@nestjs/common';
+import { homedir } from 'os';
+import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
 
-export const getSimbridgeDir = () => path.join(getPath('documents'), 'FlyByWireSim', 'Simbridge');
+export const getSimbridgeDir = () => {
+  try {
+    return path.join(getPath('documents'), 'FlyByWireSim', 'Simbridge');
+  } catch (e) {
+    Logger.warn('Could not get documents path via WinAPI, trying alternate method', e);
+  }
+  try {
+    const output = execFileSync('Powershell.exe', ['-Command', `[System.Environment]::GetFolderPath('MyDocuments')`]);
+    const documents = output.toString().trim();
+    if (!documents) {
+      throw new Error('Path is empty');
+    }
+    return path.join(documents, 'FlyByWireSim', 'Simbridge');
+  } catch (e) {
+    Logger.warn('Could not get documents path via Powershell, trying to use %USERPROFILE% method', e);
+  }
+
+  return path.join(homedir(), 'Documents', 'FlyByWireSim', 'Simbridge');
+};
 
 //@ts-expect-error pkg only defined when running as exe
 export const getExecutablePath = () => (process.pkg ? path.dirname(process.argv[0]) : process.cwd());