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

[Lawrence London]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:24 PM Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:29:56 -0700
> Lawrence London <lfljvenaura at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:25 AM wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> DM: Lawrence, what you may be thinking of is the folder list (XML) file
> located in the configuration directory. Not sure if it's the same on
> Windows, but in Linux if you change the location of your message
> store(s) from the default, then you have to edit this folder list to
> tell Claws where to look for them (there's usually one line per mailbox
> that needs to have its path string edited).


Thanks a million, Dustin. I will have to take a look and see if I can find
this file and whether I need to edit it. As it is now
Claws runs fine and I have all my folders where they need to be, i.e. a
mirror of my Gmail account.


> Besides what wwp wrote
> about telling Claws where to find the config directory when running it,
> (in Linux at least) you also have to tell Claws during the installation
> process that that's where you want the config directory to be put.
>

Yes, indeed. I experimented with a new install on a new machine and
discovered the point in the configuration where it
asks me where to put the config directory so I had it located in e:\Claws
Mail Config and it works perfectly.


> (When Claws is run, if it knows where to find the config directory,
> then it will also be able to find the folder list file, which tells it
> where to find the message store(s).) There's also the (perhaps confusing
> for some) difference between where you install the program itself (i.e.
> the executable) vs. where you 'install' the config directory and message
> store(s). In this thread I haven't always been sure that everyone is
> talking about the same thing in relation to these. Hope these
> additional thoughts help. ---Dustin
>

For me that is:

In drive e:\
[Claws Mail]

[Claws Mail Config]


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