application does not start: `MissingPlatformDirectoryException` about flemozi HOT 6 CLOSED

Thanks a lot, that solved the issue! 😄

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Your system doesn't have ~/Documents directory? flutter_hive requires it initially

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My system does have ~/Documents, thats why I am opening this bug :D

$ realpath ~/Documents
/home/chris/Documents

Do you have any Idea what else could cause this problem?

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@christian-heusel flemozi (transitively) depends on path_provider to supply the correct directory paths. On Linux, getApplicationDocumentsDirectory calls the corresponding platform function getApplicationDocumentsPath, which in turn calls xdg.getUserDirectory, which simply gives up if the xdg-user-dir executable isn't available on your path, so perhaps you could check if it is as a first step.

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@KRTirtho Should we perhaps open an issue instead to handle this gracefully?

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@skreborn the problem is caused by hive_flutter as it by default uses the documents dir (It shouldn't. I don't know why 😕) to store all the db and db.cache files. This is something needs to be fixed on the path_provider side and a requirement of xdg-user-dirs should be stated in their readme

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