Can the database location be changed?

[brandyballoon 0]

Hi,

Is there a way to change the location of the Little Navmap database?  There are two reasons I don't want it in %AppData%:

1. I don't want any data on 😄 drive that needs to be backed up.
2. I want to run two separate installations of Little Navmap on the same computer, without them interfering with each other.

Thanks,
Grace

[brandyballoon 0]

Uh... the laughing face was a C and a colon, as in C drive.

[albar965 1,047]

The forum sometimes has a mind of its own with the smileys.🙃

Currently there are no options to change this folder.
But you can replace "little_navmap_db" in "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ABarthel" with a symbolic link (*not* a Windows .lnk file) which points to another drive.

Or exclude the folder from backup.

Alex

[albar965 1,047]

4 hours ago, brandyballoon said:

2. I want to run two separate installations of Little Navmap on the same computer, without them interfering with each other.

Forgot to answer this: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/2.6/en/INSTALLATION.html#multiple-installations

Alex

[brandyballoon 0]

On 8/19/2022 at 9:22 PM, albar965 said:

Forgot to answer this: https://www.littlenavmap.org/manuals/littlenavmap/release/2.6/en/INSTALLATION.html#multiple-installations

Alex

Thank you, that's what I'm after.  So I just need to create two different shortcuts, each with their own options, to separate the databases.  Somehow I missed that part when skimming through the manual.  Then I can use symbolic links to put them on another drive.  It's not that I want it excluded from that backup, but rather I put all important data on another drive that does get backed up.  I'm one of those people who tends to reinstall Windows on a regular basis 🙂

[albar965 1,047]

59 minutes ago, brandyballoon said:

Thank you, that's what I'm after.  So I just need to create two different shortcuts, each with their own options, to separate the databases.  Somehow I missed that part when skimming through the manual.  Then I can use symbolic links to put them on another drive.  It's not that I want it excluded from that backup, but rather I put all important data on another drive that does get backed up.  I'm one of those people who tends to reinstall Windows on a regular basis

2.7.11.develop has a command line option to put all settings and databases to another folder without using symlinks. Then you can even put the settings into the LNM installation folder.🙂

Alex