[chandler-users] Feature Suggestion

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, George Gillan wrote:

> I downloaded Chandler Desktop a couple of weeks ago and took a brief
> look at it. I do plan to give it a more rigorous going over when you are
> close to or at 1.0.
>
> Meanwhile, there is one thing I noticed that really should be present
> when you get to 1.0. Namely, the ability to specify where the data files
> live, both upon installation and within preferences. It seems trivial
> (and hopefully it is trivial from a programming perspective!), but it
> can be quite helpful to users and administrators. Even Outlook has this
> feature.

Currently, you can do this by editing (creating it if necessary) the 
chandler.prefs file in your profile directory, adding an [options] section 
to it and specifying a path for repodir. This path can be absolute or 
relative (to the profile directory) and is the path to the directory that is 
to contain your __repository__ directory. After you've set this preference 
you can move your existing __repository__ directory to the chosen location 
(be sure to quit Chandler first). The location to your profile directory is 
described here [1].

chandler.prefs example:
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[options]
repodir=/some/path/as/parent/to repository
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Andi..

[1] http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/ProfileDirectory