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

[Lawrence London]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:25 AM wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> 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.
>

wwp:
I thought that some config file had to be edited. I looked at clawsrc and
could not find any reference. Maybe I left some notes about that on a
different hard drive; I will look.
Now that I have looked at the contents of e:\Claws Mail and e:\Claws Mail
Config I see how it works; \Claws Mail Config must normally exist in \Claws
Mail as when you install
and run it on C:\. This is simple, direct and works flawlessly.

Thanks very much.

Lawrence


>
>
> 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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