relocate gnome files

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 3 19:39:35 EDT 2011


Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

>> You probably can't move them, unless you redefine what HOME is, which
>> will likely mean that you would have to move everything in Users/foo to
>> the new place for HOME.
>> 
> Not quite. You can redefine home for GnuCash only. That will move all the 
> directories where you want them to be. The easiest way to do this is to add a 
> parameter in c:\Program Files\gnucash\etc\gnucash\environment, like:
> HOME=c:\MyNewHome

Note that this will change the home directory for EVERY user of GnuCash
on the system!  So if you and your spouse both use GnuCash, you'd wind
up sharing these settings, too.

> Regards,
>
> Geert

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-derek

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