[Users] Running Claws with mail folders on external hard drive

[Lawrence London]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:57:19 -0400 Lawrence London <lfljvenaura at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > How do I run Claws with mail folders on an external hard drive?
>
> Close Claws Mail. Move ~/Mail to your external storage device, and
> create a symlink in ~/ to it. Start Claws Mail back.
>
> wwp
>

Thanks very much wwp; I will do it this way. I am running Windows 8.1 (plan
on downgrading to Win 7)
and have found several excellent tutorials on creating symlinks in Win via
command line or Explorer after installing add-ons.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
http://lifehacker.com/5496652/how-to-use-symlinks-in-windows
Thanks again.
LL

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