Can I change the location where bibledit stores its data?

From Bibledit

Yes, you can. Normally bibledit stores its data in subdirectory .bibledit of the user's home directory. Changing that is not done from within bibledit, but involves some manual work. This is done for the protection of your valuable data. To change the data directory to a new location, do the following:

  • Quit bibledit.
  • Open a terminal.
  • Type command
cd

to go to your home directory. Let's say you prefer to store the data on /mnt/server/.bibledit

  • Type command
mv .bibledit /mnt/server/.bibledit

to preserve and move existing data. (When there is no existing data, this step is not needed.)

  • Type command
touch .bibledit-datafolder-pointer

to make a new file in the home directory, that will point to the new data directory.

/mnt/server/.bibledit

That is it.

Removing file .bibledit-datafolder-pointer will cause bibledit to use the standard datafolder again.

See also Backups.

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