Hi,

Am 15.07.2013 um 09:49 schrieb Robert Sander:

> On 14.07.2013 23:14, kwillems wrote:
>> As described  here
>> <http://doc.owncloud.org/desktop/1.3/usage.html#config-file>   the config
>> files a stored here: %LOCALAPPDATA%\ownCloud\owncloud.cfg
>> 
>> At the office, our system admins want to store those file on another
>> location and are asking to make the location configurable.
>> It has to do something about the user profiles.
> 
> %LOCALAPPDATA% is not part of the roaming profile (hint: LOCAL). This
> causes an empty ownCloud configuration when the user logins to another
> machine in the domain.
> 
> The ownCloud config file should really be in %APPDATA% if you are using
> roaming profiles.
> 
> I have no idea why the developers chose that location. Maybe someone can
> enlighten us?


First of all because that's what Qt returns when being asked for 
per-user-storage, second of all because we didn't really see the benefit of 
supporting storage of the configuration in the roaming profile. Roaming 
profiles have not been tested by us and all use-cases I have heard of so far 
sounded rather scary. 

There are two issues here:
- Settings storage location (%APPDATA% vs. %LOCALAPPDATA%)
- Location of the data folder (ownCloud): Microsoft mandates that apps are 
supposed to write their data into %USERPROFILE% only, but that conflicts with 
roaming profiles, so sysadmins need to be able to specify an alternate, 
user-writeable default location.

Support for Roaming profiles is scheduled for 1.4, and I am going to work on 
it, so your input on the subject is welcome at 
https://github.com/owncloud/mirall/issues/684. Please add your use cases to 
that ticket.

That said, you can pass --confdir as a workaround, and point it to the roaming 
data location. You can try and see if it works.

Btw: When seeking an alternative location for the file storage, people usually 
use NFS or SMB, and have all clients access the same file location. Don't do 
this. Multiple clients synchronizing the same _local_ directory will cause a 
race-condition.

Cheers,
  Daniel
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