Thread: Calibre Folder default location
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Old 09-17-2022, 05:33 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by mblrdr View Post
If I run calibre.exe:

a} all my former settings are gone.

b) That is because if I run calibre.exe as suggested by you it will create (in my case) c:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\calibre\

That is not the concept of portable and it is a bad advive as now I got all the "trash" in \AppData\Roaming that I wanted to avoid in the first place by using calibre as a portable version

So I don't recommend anybody interested in a portable concept doing this.

I'd really like to understand your decision of not changing the behaviour as calibre is a fantastic software. So I ask politely for your reasons of creating an default library folder and not be able to change that.

No offense just curious.
If you install the non-portable (.MSI) version, you can relocate %APPDATA%\calibre directory to another location via the CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY Environment variable.

If you look at the screenshot in post #19 you'll see I have it at C:\_AppData\Calibre\Config_64bit.

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