Can't use %USERPROFILE% in selected backup paths on Windows

Magnus Box does not expand Windows environment variables in the path selection.

The Magnus Box Backup app runs backup jobs as a dedicated service account. If the %userprofile% environment variable was expanded, it would refer to the "wrong" user account.

You can back up the %USERPROFILE%\Documents directory for all users, by

  • including the entire C:\Users directory, and
  • excluding other parts of it (e.g. pattern C:\Users\**\Downloads or regex ^C:\\Users\\[^\\+]\\Downloads).
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