Relocation of config and data directory - robert7/nixnote2 GitHub Wiki

TL;DR

To run NixNote from user specified directory: nixnote2 --configDir=/any/directory/you-want

Legacy

Config and data directory in v2.0 was fixed to $HOME/.nixnote.

Data locations overview

  • if $HOME/.nixnote directory does exist, this will be used to make migration from v2.0 easier (see bellow)
  • Otherwise system default paths of your linux distribution will be used (usually: $HOME/.config/nixnote2 for config and $HOME/.local/share/nixnote2 for data).
  • Overrides by --configDir option (and optionaly --userDataDir) for more info see nixnote2 --help

Check menu action Help/Data and log location info for currently active locations.

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Migration

To make migration easier and e.g. testing of v.2.0 together with v2.1 on the same data, if the v.2.1 detects that $HOME/.nixnote exists, it will be used. This will make v2.1 to pickup the "legacy" data and work with it correctly. The used data and config format is compatible in both ways. So you can start v2.1 on data from v2.0 and then switch back to v2.0. Just in this case never run both versions at the same time (there is a locking it place, this shouldn't make this possible, but but better don't even try :) )

Manual override

You can manually override this by using command line --configDir.

Example: nixnote2 --configDir=$HOME/.nixnote2 would instruct Nixnote to store both config and data in $HOME/.nixnote2. So you can e.g. start NixNote from a thumbdrive.

Sandboxing

If you want e.g. sandbox the new version to be sure it completely separated from existing v2.0 - you could do: cp -rf $HOME/.nixnote $HOME/.nixnote2 and then start nixnote2 --configDir=$HOME/.nixnote2.

Encrypted data directory

Another variant: let say you want encrypted data storage. Mount encrypted volume e.g. with truecrypt to /media/truecrypt1, then nixnote2 --configDir=/media/truecrypt1/nixnote2.

Note: there is additional option --userDataDir so you can override "config dir" with one value and "data dir" with another, but in most cases this would be overkill. If --configDir is used and --userDataDir is not used then userDataDir will default to configDir.