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

[wwp]

Hello Mel,


On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:01:24 -0600 "M. J. (Mel) Miners" <martlet at telus.net> wrote:

> 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?

There is no config file to change, you have to change the way you call
Claws Mail itself. For instance, by editing the shortcut so that
you add --alternate-config-dir "e:\path\to\your\config\dir" to the
command-line. If you're not comfortable with such operation, prefer
installing the program and the run-time config directory to the
standard default C: drive.


Regards,

> 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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