[chandler-users] change DB path / roaming profile

[Andre Mueninghoff]

Hmm, I just realized a misunderstanding/oversight on my part. I believe
what I've described below is all well and good for the one machine,
useful or not, but does not mean actually that I would be able to easily
use this repository on this USB drive from a second machine. Will let
you know.
Andre

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:09:19 -0400, "Andre Mueninghoff"
<andre_mueninghoff at fastmail.fm> said:
> 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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