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From: John H Meyers on 22 Mar 2010 17:41
On 3/22/2010 1:20 PM, Thomas (Tom) Skoropad wrote:

> Does the installer give the option for a separate data folder?

Yes, it's the _default_ ("user's application data folder"),
but you can also choose the program files folder (worst possible choice),
or any other folder.

This choice basically sets a single line in file "deudora.ini"
(note the leading "d") to remember this preference,
and makes sure that any non-existing folder gets created
(empty in that case).

The line created in "deudora.ini" will be one or the other of these:

UseAppData=1
-or-
DataFolder=C:\....specific_path

Not a very big deal, and you could change it afterwards,
without even re-running the installer.

Even after installing, any Eudora-launching shortcut
specifying a data folder path on the command line
will use the specific path on the command line,
overriding any other suggestion previously made,
so you can direct Eudora to use any data folder, at any time.

E.g.:

"C:\......\Eudora.exe" "D:\.....\anyfolder" <=== data folder

If you "drag and drop" any folder
directly onto program file Eudora.exe
or onto any "shortcut" for Eudora.exe
which doesn't already specify another data folder, then
Eudora launches and uses the dragged folder, once again.

If Eudora is not forced to use a specific folder
via the command line which launches Eudora, then a long questionnaire
determines how Eudora decides what "data" folder to use.

You will find that logic in Eudora's installed "Readme.txt" file,
or an on-line version at:
http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/7.1/Readme.txt
(see "Finding the data folder" and
"Precisely how Eudora determines its data folder")

Someone please remember this for me,
since this seems like about the 60th time it's been posted :)

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