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Format or spell a couple more <username>s correctly. Remove <code> blocks inside code-styled blocks.
* differences in operating systems
* your username, i.e. the account with which you've logged into your computer. Where ''<code>username</code> '' is shown below it should be replaced by your username.
* user configuration
The default user directory location for Gramps in a [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix POSIX]-style [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard environment] is:
which can also be entered as
This is true for [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd BSD], [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux], [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system) Solaris], [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Unix] and [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X Mac OS-X] when using [[Build_from_source#Mac_OS_X|Mac OS X Build from source]].
Alternately, you can use a tilde or the [http://www.linfo.org/home_directory.html '''$HOME''' environment variable] to avoid referring to the username. Although Gramps will not recognize a tilde or environment variables variable in paths internally, you can use them within Linux to find Gramps user files. The path above can be simplified to either:
~/.gramps
====macOS Application Package====
The [[Mac OS X:Application package]] uses a different, more macOS-standard default location for the directory:
== MS Windows ==
The default '''User Directory''' location for any Gramps user data on a Windows 7 (and newer) system is
C:\Users\''<code>username</code>''\AppData\Local\gramps
Alternately, you can use the '''%LocalAppData%''' [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable#APPDATA environment variable] to avoid referring to the username. (We've chosen to use the username environment variable in the documentation for Windows rather than '''''<~username>''''' used for documenting other OSes.) Although Gramps will not recognize environment variables for paths internally, you can use them within Windows to find Gramps user files. The path above can be simplified to:
%LocalAppData%\gramps
{{man note|User Directory relocated {{new|5.2.0}}|'''The User Directory has relocated in version 5.2'''<br />The default '''User Directory''' location for the 5.2 version of Gramps user data on a Windows 7 (and newer) system is: <br /> <code> C:\Users\'''''%username%'''''\AppData\Local\gramps</code><br /> <code> %LocalAppData%\gramps</code><br />The default '''User Directory''' location for any 5.1.x and earlier version of Gramps user data on a Windows 7 (and newer) system is: <br /> <code> C:\Users\'''''%username%'''''\AppData\Roaming\gramps</code><br /> <code> %AppData%\gramps</code>}}