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How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:09 am
by zopfan
I want that if my OS crashes, my ini and db file remain with me in my documents folder (which is always mapped to a drive other than the windows partition).
I like to keep all the settings files of diff programmes (as far as possible) on a different location/partition than windows. This way I can reinstall my OS as and when I want without first backing up anything. [I don't want to lose my playlists all of a sudden].
But with MM3.0.7.1191 [on Vista Ultimate], I've customised the location of my database, but don't know how to do that for ini file?
Also, pls tell, if I install MM3 on a different drive than Vista, will all the interface settings (and maybe playlists) will remain intact once I reinstall Vista (in other words, if MM3's portable installation-- so that I could carry it in a removable drive and plug-in and run in any PC-- is possible or not?)
Re: How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:00 pm
by nohitter151
I think the .ini has to either be in the default location or in the MediaMonkey program folder and that those are the only two options.
Re: How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:53 am
by zopfan
nohitter151 wrote:I think the .ini has to either be in the default location or in the MediaMonkey program folder and that those are the only two options.
Is there a way to know if this is the authoritative (100% correct) answer, or your own presumption.
Edit: [Pls don't mind my English]
Re: How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:53 am
by nohitter151
I'm 99% sure. If someone else knows differently, please post it.
Re: How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:50 pm
by fourteen
Since you are on Vista you can take advantage of junction points.
I have successfully put all my MediaMonkey files, incl. .ini file, under c:\fourteen\Documents\Music\MediaMonkey. Actually, I have a couple of different sets of files/libraries that I switch between. This is how you do it (MediaMonkey stores its data in %LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey):
- 1- copy MediaMonkey's files from %LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey to your new desired location, e.g. d:\<user>\Documents\Music\MediaMonkey.
- 2- delete the folder %LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey (you did copy it in previous step, didn't you...)
- 3- make a junction point %LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey pointing to your new desired location d:\<user>\Documents\Music\MediaMonkey
Here are the commands - do at your own risk:
- 1- xcopy "%LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey" "d:\<user>\Documents\Music\MediaMonkey" /E
- 2- rmdir /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey"
- 3- mklink /J "%LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaMonkey" "d:\<user>\Documents\Music\MediaMonkey"
You may want to do 1 and 2 manually in Explorer to make sure things go right. I don't think you can create junction points using Explorer so you need to run the mklink command in step 3 in a command prompt. Also, I am not sure if XP supports these kind of junction points, but Vista does.
This works great for me but do it at your own risk.
Re: How do change ini 's location?
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:00 pm
by Vaer
fourteen wrote:You may want to do 1 and 2 manually in Explorer to make sure things go right. I don't think you can create junction points using Explorer so you need to run the mklink command in step 3 in a command prompt. Also, I am not sure if XP supports these kind of junction points, but Vista does.
I can confirm that XP does support junction points.
I use
Junction Link Magic to make them.