gaubert
Allow Gmvault's HOME to be moved
On Windows, all of Gmvault's stuff gets stored under C:\Users\MyUser, because HOME is unconditionally overwritten in gmvault.bat. It should probably first check whether HOME is already set, like gmvault-shell.bat does. (Btw., does gmvault-shell.bat really need to set it too?)
It would also be nice if I could configure Gmvault's home directory independently of the global HOME environment variable. For example by introducing a GMVAULT_HOME variable, which would take precendence over HOME if it's set by the user. The installer could even allow it to be configured during setup. The reason why this would be useful is that I like to store important data on my data drive, D:, and not on the system drive, C:, that gets wiped on an OS reinstall.
@PantherDD I'm not sure if you know that you can easily move GMVault's Home to any directory or drive you like. For example, I have installed GMVault in D:\gmvault. I then made the following changes so all GMVault's items are also stored in D:\gmvault (you can pick any drive or folder you like).
In gmvault.bat, replace %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% with D:/gmvault in the following line: SET HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%
In gmvault-shell.bat, REM the following two lines: @if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% @if not exist "%HOME%" @set HOME=%USERPROFILE%
There may be a better way, but thus far the above has worked for me.
I hope it helps.
@aberja That's what I did too, but it's a fragile hack. I will have to keep making these changes after every version upgrade, also checking that those are still the right places to apply the hack at. It'd be so much cleaner if there was a supported way to do this, one that would work across versions. :smile:
