I want to change the location of the .grails directory. I have read about using working directories, but this is not what I want. For some reason my .grails directory gets put in the "Administrator" user folder instead of in my user folder. How do I correct this?
Asked
Active
Viewed 7,727 times
3 Answers
7
The grailsWorkDir property controls the location. You can change the value in the BuildConfig.groovy file.
See the Grails documentation section 5.5 Customising the build:
There is an issue with Java and the user.home property in Windows. See this SO question for more details:
Java user.home is being set to %userprofile% and not being resolved
Community
- 1
- 1
James Allman
- 40,573
- 11
- 57
- 70
-
Neither me nor my co-worker has a `$USER_HOME` environment variable. On his machine the `.grails` folder is put in his user folder. On my machine the `.grails` folder is put in the "Administrator" user folder. This is what I am trying to figure out. – ubiquibacon Jul 10 '12 at 15:54
-
Probably it's os-specific. What if try `echo %HOMEPATH%`? – Igor Artamonov Jul 10 '12 at 15:59
-
My `%HOMEPATH%` is the same as my co-worker's, a single backslash. – ubiquibacon Jul 10 '12 at 16:08
-
The default Windows `HOMEPATH` is **C:\Documents and Settings\
** (XP) or **C:\Users\ – James Allman Jul 10 '12 at 16:12** (W7). A single backslash is unusual. -
I.T. has a lot of crazy stuff going on here. Even when I set a `%USER_HOME%` environment variable Grails STILL puts the `.grails` directory in "Administrator" user folder instead of my user folder. – ubiquibacon Jul 10 '12 at 16:17
-
A `%HOMEPATH%` of ``\`` isn't unusual when paired with a `%HOMEDRIVE%` pointing to a network share. – ataylor Jul 10 '12 at 16:17
-
@ataylor Good point. I didn't think about AD/roaming user profiles. – James Allman Jul 10 '12 at 16:26
-
@JamesA I think your answer is technically correct, but for whatever reason my PC will not comply. Rather than mess with it I'm just getting my PC re-imaged. – ubiquibacon Jul 10 '12 at 22:53
0
On Windows 7, the values in the registry for "Shell Folders" AND "User Shell Folders" in the registry path "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" affect the user.home and in turn the location of the ".grails" folder.
Dominic Clifton
- 1,464
- 1
- 9
- 6
