Moving Data Directory

WolfHawke

Is there a way to move the data directory of OpenLP to a different location? (e.g. if you have a partitioned hard drive, need ot maintain multiple data directories, etc.)

MrGamgee

WolfHawke, AFAIK there is no supported way to actually move it, not even through the registry (on windows)... but you could look into symlinks and/or junctions if you really want to achieve this. What platform are you on? (if vista/win7, try mklink on the command line) Sam

mhalbrook

I prefer this tool for Windows and Junctions :) http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

MrGamgee

+1

googol

Hello, I know that you can change some of these locations (like "my music" etc), and I guess that also applies for the %appdata% location. Try your favourite search engine. Something like "change %appdata% location" should be enough. Cheers _____________________________ Like OpenLP? Give us a thumb.

WolfHawke

Okay, taking all of your responses in to account, I came up with the following solution. Once OpenLP is set up, close OpenLP and move your Open LP data folder (in the case of Windows 7 that would be C:\UsersUserName\AppData\Roaming\openlp, but not openlp\data!) to the new location. Then open a command prompt and enter the following command:

mklink /d C:\UsersUserName\AppData\Roaming\openlp <Full Path of to the moved openlp folder>

Once you restart OpenLP it will use the remote via the symbolic link. Since I want to manage multiple-language versions of OpenLP that shouldn't get mixed up with one another, I wrote the following quick and dirty script in VBScript that will do the whole thing for you. Save it as a .vbs file and add a link to the desktop to execute the script for the given version of OpenLP. Feel free to use it as you wish. No attribution required.

' Windows Script' Creates a symbolic link to a remote openlp folder' Then starts openlpOption Explicit' Initialize variablesDim openlp, localfolder, remotefolder, wsh, wmgo, commandStr, cmdWinProcess, cmdWinResult' define foldersopenlp = Chr(34) & "<Path to OpenLP.EXE>" & Chr(34)localfolder = Chr(34) & "<Path to AppData folder location>" & Chr(34)remotefolder = Chr(34) & "<Path to moved openlp data folder>" & Chr(34)' Connect to objectsSet wsh = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")Set wmgo = GetObject("winmgmts:")' Remove existing symlinkcommandStr = "cmd /k rmdir " & localfolderwsh.Run commandStr, 2' create new symlinkcommandStr = "cmd /k mklink /d " & localfolder & " " & remotefolderwsh.Run commandStr, 2' close cmd windowSet cmdWinResult = wmgo.Execquery("select * from Win32_Process where name='cmd.exe'")For Each cmdWinProcess in cmdWinResult cmdWinProcess.Terminate 1Next' execute OpenLPwsh.Run openlp

Blessings. 2Co 12:9; Php 3:16; SS 8:7a; Ps 125:1; Isa 8:13-14a; 1Th 5:18 http://www.wolfhawke.comhttp://www.hawke-ai.com

MrGamgee

Nice work! You're probably aware of this, but for other users - on windows, OpenLP settings (including the lists of images & media) are stored in the registry, so they will still be shared across your different data sets. Sam

WolfHawke

Yeah, but in my case it's no big deal. What we're trying to keep separate are the songs, the Bibles and the sessions. Since there's only one computer setting variables are not so important. Blessings. 2Co 12:9; Php 3:16; SS 8:7a; Ps 125:1; Isa 8:13-14a; 1Th 5:18 http://www.wolfhawke.comhttp://www.hawke-ai.com