Environment: Windows 11, Gramps 5.2.2 and Gramps 5.1.6 official AIO builds. On this PC with no prior Gramps installations, I installed Gramps 5.2.2 do genealogy work. Yesterday I wanted to test the behavior of some functionality in Gramps 5.1.6 so I installed it with the ‘just for me’ option during…

Gramps v5.2 will use the legacy directory layout if it detects an old installation. This makes upgrades easier.

Thanks, that confirms the behavior I’m experiencing and it makes sense as usually the upgrade path would be from older version to newer version. However, installing an older version later is also a scenario to expect for example, when old databases need to be revived, or for development and testing.…

[image] codefarmer: However, the 3P addons I had installed and other configurations before installing 5.1.6 aren’t restored - there’s no setting that allows me to point to the configuration folder. The configuration files are unique to the major Gramps versions. Your 5.1.6 program stores its…

[image] DaveSch: Your 5.1.6 program stores its configuration files in C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\gramps\gramps51 the 5.2.2 program in C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Roaming\gramps\gramps52 Even without the transition to appdata\roaming the 5.2 files would not share the same configuration files as 5.1. …

[image] ennoborg: This would be right, if you switched Local and Roaming. Old Gramps versions use Roaming, and Local is new, for 5.2. I switched my GRAMPSHOME so long ago I forget which is which. Thank you for the correction.

[image] DaveSch: There is a way to set all Gramp installs to use a common user folder by setting the GRAMPSHOME Thanks for outlining your approach, @DaveSch ; I will have to try that out. In the meanwhile let’s take this opportunity to explore a solution we could build into Gramps so other use…

[image] codefarmer: In the meanwhile let’s take this is opportunity to explore a solution we could build into Gramps so other users don’t run into this. When you installed 5.2.2 did you have any previous versions installed and their associated user directories? According to Nick, if you had a…

@DaveSch I started on a system with no prior Gramps installation.

One additional question. Did you launch and use 5.2.2 before installing and using 5.1.6? Launching 5.2.2 first would have created its gramps.ini. Once 5.2.2 had its gramps.ini file it should not have sought to import the 5.1.6’s gramps.ini. I have no idea what may or may not be wrong with the code…

@DaveSch Yes, I had been using 5.2.2 for several weeks before I needed to install 5.1.6. Steps should be reproducible according to the original post in this thread. Based on what @Nick-Hall said in his reply, the change can be tracked to implementation of bug 8025, Support XDG base directory specif…

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Installing Gramps 5.1.6 after 5.2.2 causes Gramps configuration confusion

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