What? What's the purpose of that? Why not look in the home folder, where files are actually going to be stored?
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because on the earlier versions of the software the save files didn't save images, just the paths to them. so having the paths all use the user:// folder made avatar distribution more feasible (just drag and drop the files). also means file paths are the same on windows mac and linux.
Avatar saves nowadays save images and dont need to rely on file paths anymore, so i could fix it but i just really dont care to tbh