Command line option to change config/settings directory

• Jul 27, 2010 - 11:23
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Project
MuseScore

A command line option to specify the config/settings directory for MuseScore would be nice.
Something like "mscore.exe -config <path>".
Alternatively MuseScore could accept an environment variable like "HOME".

Note: On Windows settings at %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% should be redirected with that command line switch / environment variable.

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• Jan 7, 2011 - 10:24

Any plans to implement this? It would give the users more control over the settings and would help making the portable version more failsafe.

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• Jan 8, 2011 - 18:40

Thanks werner!
Now it's time for me to do some portable tweaks. Well, I'll wait for the next stable release. ;-)

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• Jan 20, 2011 - 09:35
Status (old) fixed ⇒ active

Just tested MuseScore-1.0-pre1.exe on Win XP. Command line switch doesn't redirect all settings. MuseScore still saves to local appdata. (C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\Username\Lokale Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\MusE\MuseScore)

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• Jan 20, 2011 - 19:27

Just to answer your previous question:
mscore-palette.xml, session, a plugins folder, ... (maybe more, it was just a 2 minutes quick test).
I'll test the next prerelease if I find the time for it.
Thanks.

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