Application.persistentDataPath changing run-to-run on OSX?

I've run the same game several times and sometimes i get

persistentDataPath = /Users/stephenlavelle/Library/Application Support/increpare games/Sausage

and sometimes i get

persistentDataPath = /Users/stephenlavelle/Library/Application Support/unity.increpare games.Sausage

Anyone have any idea what's going on? I'm trying to get steam cloud saving working, and, I don't know what's right! aah! is it that unity checks for fallback directories first, or? I'm super confused!

There's no documentation on where persistentDataPath is on various platforms. I'm trying to get my game working with steam auto cloud sharing (where you can give it a path that it'll sync, vs using steam plugins), but if I can't provide a single stable path on OSX, then I can't use it and will have to have a dedicated steam build with the steamworks plugin dll.

edit: to clarify, this is all happening in standalone builds.

 

Try

Code (CSharp):

1. Appliction.dataPath

Instead and see if that helps.
I know personally dataPath works for me. (Im on Windows so it depends.)

 

It's not correct to write to the datapath on OSX (and also in principle on windows, because the user may not have write permission to that directory);

 

Ok, going to abandon persistentDataPath and just going to hardcode those paths.

 

A friend told me this is still a problem. Lol. Here's my production-tested "reliable PersistentDataPath" code in the end in case anyone else stumbles across this:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.     public static string PersistentDataPath =
3.         #if UNITY_EDITOR_WIN || UNITY_STANDALONE_WIN
4.         System.IO.Path.Combine(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData),@"..\LocalLow\COMPANYGAME\APPNAME")
5.         //"%USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/COMPANYGAME/APPNAME"
6.         #elif UNITY_EDITOR_OSX || UNITY_STANDALONE_OSX
7.         homePath+"/Library/Application Support/unity.COMPANYGAME/APPNAME"
8.         #elif UNITY_STANDALONE_LINUX
9.         homePath+"/.config/COMPANYGAME/APPNAME"
10.         #else
11.         Application.persistentDataPath
12.         #endif
13.         ;
14.  

Don't forget to sub in your own company/app names there ( Or use Application.productName / Application.companyName )

 

This still happens. I made a build using 2019.3.7 and on one Mac it's "~/Library/Application Support/company name/product name" and on another Mac it's "~/Library/Application Support/unity.company name.product name".

If I delete the folders on each Mac, they are recreated in the same way, still different from each other. What is causing this? One thought is the one using the old format "unity.company name.product name" is an older computer that likely had an older version of Unity installed on it at some point and maybe there's some settings file somewhere reading that? No matter, this needs to be fixed.