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On Oct 18 15:07, Csaba wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Lee Savidge wrote: > > I've been using cygwin for many years simply because of the number of > > tools it gives me that Windows simply doesn't have or doesn't do very > > well. A while ago my install of cygwin suddely changed my home > > directory from > > > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/myuseraccount > > > > to > > > > /cygdrive/c/users/mywindowsuser > > > (snip) > > > > Firstly, why? Why make my cygwin home directory use the same folder > > that Windows uses which is full of a load of stuff that Windows needs > > to keep? > > Presumably because that's the place for _your_ stuff, and you are sure > to have write rights. > > > Secondly, how can I put it back as it used to be so that when I opened > > bash it defaulted to my home directory which was mapped to > > > > /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/myuseraccount > > > I had this happen to me at work ($HOME pointed to a network drive > instead of C:\cygwin\home\...) and IIRC the solution was to unset the > %HOMEDRVE% and %HOMEDIR% environment variables before installing. What about just editing the home dir in your /etc/passwd entry? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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