Gramps 5.2 Wiki Manual - User Directory
This appendix documents the location of the Gramps User Directory. That directory, or folder, is stored at different locations due to
- differences in operating systems
- your username, i.e. the account with which you've logged into your computer. Where <username> is shown below it should be replaced by your username.
- user configuration
Contents
POSIX - style systems
The default user directory location for Gramps in a POSIX-style environment is:
/home/<username>/.gramps
which can also be entered as
~<username>/.gramps
This is true for BSD, Linux, Solaris, Unix and Mac OS-X when using Mac OS X Build from source.
Alternately, you can use a tilde or the $HOME environment variable to avoid referring to the username. Although Gramps will not recognize a tilde or environment variable in paths internally, you can use them in a terminal or in scripts. The path above can be simplified to either:
~/.gramps
or
$HOME/.gramps
macOS Application Package
The Mac OS X:Application package uses a different, more macOS-standard default location for the directory:
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/gramps
macOS filenames, including directories, starting with "." (period) do not show up in Finder. Access the Gramps user directory in any of these ways:
- In Finder, navigate to the directory which contains the hidden file or directory you want to see and type command-shift-. (period). All of the hidden files and directories in that directory will be shown.
- Click on Go -> 'Go to Folder...' in the Finder, and type
~/.gramps
- in the resulting macOS Go to the Folder dialog box.
- Open a terminal window using the Terminal application and type
ln -s ~/.gramps ~/Documents/Gramps
which will make Finder show the directory as a folder in your Documents folder named "Gramps". (You can replace "Gramps" with whatever name you wish, but use a \ before any spaces.)
MS Windows
On Microsoft Windows, filenames and folder for programs and userdata are hidden in the File Explorer. To make access to the Gramps user directory easy follow the following advice from Microsoft:
The default User Directory location for any Gramps user data on a Windows 7 (and newer) system is
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\gramps
Alternately, you can use the %LocalAppData% 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
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User Directory relocated — ⚡new for version 5.2.0 The User Directory has relocated in version 5.2 |
Like the User Directory, the location for programs/applications is also hidden from browsing with Windows Explorer.
The default location for an installation on a Windows 7 (and newer) system is
C:\Program Files\GrampsAIO64-5.X.X
See Also
- Command Line Configuration (config) option with Environment Variables
- Switching from Breadcrumbs to a location text box using Crtl+L in GTK file dialogs
- Discourse forum threads :
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