From 8798f2fbf51d0c8161cf38a627cb0e21b2418da7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitri Bogomolov <4glitch@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 18:56:35 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Try using ActiveState appdirs on Windows

---
 src/paths.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/paths.py b/src/paths.py
index 49e312a1..c162f0b3 100644
--- a/src/paths.py
+++ b/src/paths.py
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ def lookupAppdataFolder():
         dataFolder = os.path.join(
             os.environ['APPDATA'], APPNAME
         ).decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding(), 'ignore') + os.path.sep
+        try:
+            os.path.isdir(dataFolder)
+        except WindowsError:
+            from appdirs import user_data_dir
+            dataFolder = user_data_dir('PyBitmessage', False)
     else:
         try:
             dataFolder = os.path.join(os.environ['XDG_CONFIG_HOME'], APPNAME)