Keeping config files in a custom folder?

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Hi,

Dopus keeps its config files either in
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\GPSoftware\Directory Opus
or
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\

Is it possible to keep them in another custom location, like
\config\

Thanks

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You can create an NTFS junction or soft-link if you want to move the config folder.

Putting it in the install folder isn't generally a good idea, since it tends to be read-only, but if you really want to then go for it.

3

Thanks Leo,

that's indeed a possibility but an unneccessary complication.
I prefer apps that keep everything in one place and don't need anything outside the install dir, and can be moved to or synced with another PC by simple file copying.
I'm always trying to avoid that messy structure Microsoft wants to enforce with stuff spread all over the place, it should be at least optional.
But as I undestand there is no other way.

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It's not MS because Appdata, Roaming, Local or Registry are only possible places. Each app could store the settings e.g. in "%PROGDIR%\Settings" or Roaming, but why making easy :wink:!?! Have a look at Adobe: Photoshop and Illustrator save their configs in Roaming, Acrobat in Roaming, but Interface-Settings in Registry! And there is no option to export settings, grrr.

So I'm glad that I can export DO's config separately.

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[quote="peter_nn0"]Thanks Leo,

that's indeed a possibility but an unneccessary complication.
I prefer apps that keep everything in one place and don't need anything outside the install dir, and can be moved to or synced with another PC by simple file copying.
I'm always trying to avoid that messy structure Microsoft wants to enforce with stuff spread all over the place, it should be at least optional.
But as I undestand there is no other way.[/quote]

If the configuration isn't stored in the standard place, Opus has to look somewhere to find out where it really is stored...

So you'd always have to create some kind of item in a pre-defined place which told Opus where to look. That's what a junction/link does, really. It's just storing that configuration data in the actual filesystem rather than as a file or registry value.

It works well, too; I've used it to move the thumbnail cache folder to another drive.