Problems with the configuration of Gramps “ constants ” can be tedious to troubleshoot. Rather than pawing through the various screens where the constants can be configured and then painfully using a series of Gramps CLI commands to explore the constants, you can paste a small script into the built-i…

[image] on Gramps 5.2.1 on Fedora for user DistrictSupport, applying the script returns the output: VERSION : 5.2.1 (NOT A DIRECTORY) PROGRAM_NAME : Gramps (NOT A DIRECTORY) URL_HOMEPAGE : http://gramps-project.org/ (NOT A DIRECTORY) URL_MAILINGLIST : http://sourcefor…

[image] on Gramps 5.2.1 on Windows 10 Pro for user my_username, applying the script returns the output: VERSION : AIO64-5.2.1-r1-cdec38e (NOT A DIRECTORY) (NOT HIDDEN) PROGRAM_NAME : Gramps URL_HOMEPAGE : http://gramps-project.org/ (NOT A DIRECTORY) URL_MAILINGLIST : ht…

[image] on Gramps 5.2.1 on macOS Sonoma for user macusername, applying a modified script returns the ENV output : (NOT HIDDEN) USER_HOME : /Users/macusername (NOT HIDDEN) USER_CACHE : /Users/macusername/Library/Application Support/gramps (NOT HIDDEN) USER_CONFIG : /Users/macus…

The script can be run from SuperTool (an addon tool by the Isotammi project) as well. Just copy the code into the “Initialization statements” section in Supertool and press Execute. The output will appear on the console/terminal (This means that you have to have started Gramps from the command lin…

The output could be more compact and digestable. Nick notes that there are just 3 key library calls for the default base directories: [image] Database and user directory locations on current macOS We obtain the default base directories from the library calls: GLib.get_user_data_dir() GLib.get…

added reference to this discussion in the enhancement request for the Prerequisites Checker Gramplet. https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=12768#c67547

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Troubleshooting Gramps paths and environmental variables

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The output could be more compact and digestable.
Nick notes that there are just 3 key library calls for the default base directories:

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Troubleshooting Gramps paths and environmental variables

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