[chandler-users] change DB path / roaming profile

[Andre Mueninghoff]

Hi Andi, Thanks for the tip. Got it working with my USB "stick". This
configuration makes Chandler Desktop more practical for me day to day.

For others potentially interested, specifically, on Windows XP, I moved
only the "__repository__" folder (and all of its contents) from its
location on the C:\ drive to the root of the USB drive, in my case F:\,
and made this addition to the chandler.prefs file on the C:\ drive

[options]
repodir=f:

My initial impressions are that the performance of this configuration is
fine. There are a few additional delays here and there as noted by Andi,
but nothing that impairs my usage.

Usual caveats apply, of course, back up your data, YMMV, etc.

Cheers, Andre

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:08:24 -0700 (PDT), "Andi Vajda"
<vajda at osafoundation.org> said:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Andre Mueninghoff wrote:
> 
> > There are work-arounds, but, after much experimentation, I find myself
> > now with Andi steering towards keeping my profile & repository on a USB
> > drive and physically toting it around with me as compared to trying to
> > sync up two or more desktops via the hub. It will be a relief (if and)
> > when the Chandler Hub has the equivalent of the Chandler Desktop's
> > Dashboard.
> 
> "Chandler on a Stick" is a feature I'd very much like to fully support
> but at 
> the moment it's not complete. There is a bug tracking it, bug 10778.
> A few words of caution:
> 
>    A __repository__ directory is not portable across machines,
>    only its data files are.
> 
>    A USB key isn't exactly the fastest of storage mechanisms, expect
>    delays
>    in application startup and repository commits. Chandler on a
>    firewire/usb
>    hard drive iPod could actually be a nice and fast-enough portable
>    device for
>    Chandler.
> 
> More on this feature as it's being developed...
> 
> Andi..
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