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Old 03-08-2019, 06:35 PM   #144
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Originally Posted by DaltonST View Post
CS installs all of its resources (as also do Job Spy and any plugins that extract their documentation files (.pdfs or .html) underneath the calibre/config/plugins directory) in the config directory specified by Calibre at the time of installation of the plugin. That will never change. If you randomly move stuff around later on, then you will have to reinstall the plugins.


DaltonST
It was not a "random' decision, it was a "much considered decision" to enable me to have alternative calibre configurations - you should be using the environment variable - they reason they exist is to prevent situations like this.

Irrespective of environment variables, the location of the configuration folder shouldn't be effectively 'hard coded' at a moment in time. If someone moves their calibre installation (with the calibre Export/Import tools) to a different computer (maybe a different OS) under a different user name the location of their configuration folder will change. The raison detre for the Export/Import tools is to facilitate doing that in as frictionless manner as possible - including no plugin reinstalls.

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