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

[M. J. (Mel) Miners]

Gents; I am a new user of Claws - or would like to be.  I did exactly what
Lawrence did - I installed it on my external hard drive.

>From your thread, I need to change a config file. So, in what folder do I
find this config file and where do I insert that string?

With thanks, Mel

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:10 AM wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> 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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