How to change the location of Doomsday Frontend?

whaides

Hi,

I have installed Doomsday 1.12.2 to my Windows 7 PC while it was connected to a internal network. According to description at http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title= ... _directory the default location of frontend shall be C:\Users\<user-name>\Doomsday Frontend\runtime\ for Win7. In my case, the frontend has been installed to a network drive (H:, see below). In case my PC is not connected, Doomsday Engine won't start. I have checked snowberry.exe.log which says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "snowberry.py", line 44, in <module>
File "snowberry.py", line 33, in main
File "sb\profdb.pyo", line 213, in restore
File "shutil.pyo", line 52, in copyfile
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'H:\\Documents\\Doomsday Frontend\\profiles\\defaults.prof'

As I connect to the network drive, engine works well.

How and where to modify default location of frontend in order to run engine without network connection?
I tried uninstall and reinstall doomsday in not connected state, but it did not work.

Thanks in advance!

DaniJ

On Windows the Doomsday installation path is stored in the registry, for the benefit of updates so that they are by default installed to same location you used last time. It should simply be a case of changing this path when you install again (using the installer), in the not-connected state (which will then update the path in registry and any shortcuts in the Start menu, etc...).

Let us know how you get on.

skyjake

It might help you to use the -nohome option when launching Snowberry. In practice, you'll probably want to create a new shortcut of Snowberry.exe and in it, add the "-nohome" command line option in the shortcut properties.

This will cause Snowberry to use its installation folder for user files instead of "{HOME}\Documents\Doomsday Frontend". Naturally you'll need to have write access to the install folder of Snowberry/Doomsday.

whaides

Hi Guys,

I have solved the problem. It's a bit funny, but a simple PC restart helped without network connection and then Doomsday created a new frontend directory on the C drive, as it is normal. :-)

So thanks a lot again!