Change Configuration Path

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Hello Support,
is it possible to change the default configuration paths from DO?

%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus
%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus

On another drive, we use a git repository to synchronize settings from multiple software. If DO can search there for the settings, we can easly define default settings for all users.

Thanks for help

2

You can use junctions or softlinks to redirect the paths.

3

Hello Leo,
thank you for your reply.
Can you explain me how to do this?
Thank you

4

I have a bat file lying around like this that I used to use with the Mark Russinovich tool junction.exe (though it could be adapted with the newer mklink.exe as well). Please test and make a copy of your data before you use it.

attrib -s -h "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsUser"
attrib -s -h "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsAll"
rmdir /s /q "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsUser"
rmdir /s /q "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsAll"
mkdir "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsUser"
mkdir "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsAll"

xcopy /E /H "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus" "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsUser"
xcopy /E /H "%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus" "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsAll"

junction -d "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"
junction -d "%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"
attrib -s -h "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"
attrib -s -h "%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"
rmdir /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"
rmdir /s /q "%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus"

junction "%LOCALAPPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus" "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsUser"
junction "%APPDATA%\GPSoftware\Directory Opus" "D:\Settings\Dopus\SettingsAll"
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Thank you very much. That solution worked for me and made a central deployment of the settings possibly.
Best Regards