[Users] Fwd: Running Claws on an external hard drive.

[wwp]

Hello Lawrence,


On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 23:20:03 -0700 Lawrence London <lfljvenaura at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:08 PM wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Lawrence,
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:29:34 -0700 Lawrence London <lfljvenaura at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In Windows is there a standard way to do this and is there any
> > > documentation anywhere on it?
> >
> > You mean installing Claws Mail to a non-C: drive?
> >
> 
> To a non-C drive.
> 
> I did it with a new Claws install on a new machine through experimenting
> and it worked. It's all in how you configure it
> and telling it where you want the filesystem. Its the command to run it
> this way. I have one that works but its been so long since I worked that
> out I have forgotten how I did it. I need to relearn/reverse engineer what
> I did before.
> It is a matter of altering a config file somewhere then pointing to the
> folder that contains it in the command string to run Claws (from C drive on
> machine with external hard drive containing the Claws file system).
> 
> On the external drive this is the folder system used:
> Drive E:
> [Claws Mail]
> 
> [Claws Mail Config]
> 
> 
> STRING-TO-RUN-CLAWS-IN-RUN-VIPSAVE.txt     1KB
> which is:
> e:\CLAWS Mail\claws-mail.exe --alternate-config-dir e:\Claws Mail Config

Well, there's nothing really tricky if you want to install the program
on E:. Just pick the right drive or path during the install process.

The data directory will by default be relative to you user data dir
(which is commonly on C:), unless you use, as you already do,
--alternate-config-dir.


Regards,

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wwp
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