Cygwin installing into wrong directory

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue Aug 29 16:37:00 GMT 2006


On 29 August 2006 16:09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Chuck wrote:

>> [ ... ] Then I noticed that it created my user home directory in
>> "c:\documents and settings\userid". I wanted it in "c:\cygwin\home"
>> where it was before. What happened and how can I move it. I do NOT want
>> it cluttering up "documents and settings".

>  [ ... ]    If you must, you can also set HOME in your
> Windows environment to the directory you want.  When Cygwin starts,
> it will use this value to override all others set.

  Isn't the probably the underlying reason why the home dirs were created in
documents and settings in the first place, i.e. does the machine already have
HOME set in its environment variables?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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