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Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:37:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin installing into wrong directory
- References: <035f01c6cb87$fdeb2f30$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Dave Korn wrote:
On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Chuck wrote:
[ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in
"c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home"
where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want
it cluttering up "documents and settings".
[ ... ] If you must, you can also set HOME in your
Windows environment to the directory you want. When Cygwin starts,
it will use this value to override all others set.
Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were created in
documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine already have
HOME set in its environment variables?
Not necessarily. Windows typically sets HOMEDIRVE and HOMEPATH but not HOME.
The doc-o-settings path is typically the same as these variables but can
also come from the domain server. In environments with domains, the home
directory is set by the domain and, I believe, the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH get
set to the domain's designation on login.
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