How To Move .limewire Folder To Another Directory?
 

.limewire currently resides on disk as [C:\Documents and Settings\User\.limewire]. I do not want files being written back to C: and want to move the LimeWire user profile to another location i.e. [G:\LimeWire]. How can this be accomplished?

Tools>Options gives you the choice of where you want to store your downloads. I'd imagine once you have changed that, it should just be a question of moving your existing files to that location, but I haven't tried it.

Chris P

Heh...That merely moves the [Incomplete] folder, not the [.limewire] user profile. Hello...? Lord of the Rings ;) ?

Sounds like you want it to be set up like me. At least that is the way I had it set up until a couple of weeks ago. I can't remember whether the user preferences are stored in C or G. I would greatly suspect it will be C since that's normally where the user accounts are stored. Give me a day (or several hours at least) & I can find out for you. I had the program installed on G but was saving to F drive.

Any luck, LOTR?

OK I tried without success. It naturally installs the .lw file into my user account which is on my C drive. I tried to change the location of my user account by opening the Computer Management Control panel. Unfortunately I'm not a knowledgable enough windows user (I predominantly use mac) & changing the location didn't seem to work. What I should have tried I suppose is set up a new account in the other drive. This is what I did:

Computer Management>System Tools>Local Users & Groups>Users>Click on your user-name>select Action on menu bar & Select Properties>Press Profile tab>select Homefolder/Local Path & type in new location.

Now that didn't work for me ... perhaps a new account might.

Oh & I did set up a separate account & try to set it to another drive but it didn't seem to work.

Greetings adamlau,

I just researched what you are trying to do. It appears it may be possible. I haven't tried it, but in WindowsXP if you open the help and support center. In the search type in - changing program to another drive. It shows as one of the results SC. It appears you might be able to follow the instructions and accomplish what you want.

I only have one hard drive at the moment, so I couldn't try it out to see if it actually works.

Hope this helps out some.

It can be possible. Unfortunately I use VPC win 2k on a mac so the process happens so slowly I don't always recognise when changes happen immediately. After some time after deliberately setting up a user account on drive G, I found there was in fact a prefs folder called .limewire on that partition for lotr's account. So it can be done! (Just that I'd hate to repeat the process on my computer b/c it's so so slow!)

I have a vintage choice of directories in my D drive. My personal data organized in a well structured directory tree that has title cased verbose incase sensitive self descriptive catchy easy to read non abbreviated names guarantied non starting with a dot

D:\Documents
D:\Video
D:\Software
D:\Deskop

etc...

that's the drive I backup regularly...

now comes some Linux originated apps writing all kind of crazy different directories to my place. Needless to say I'm not pleased about this.

D:\.limewire

etc...

I've very basic Linux knowledge, I'm suspecting D:\ is exposed as my home dir or what's this dir is called and most Linux apps write to this dir in a subdir starting with a dot.

I wish more applications would ship zip xcopy style at least as option and would use locations within the app dir by default unless specified other. I wouldn't have to care my system gets trashed and I wouldn't have to reinstall and setup applications when I setup a new system

does anybody know how to change this home dir on Win XP systems?