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The default location for an installation on a Windows system is
C:\Documents and Settings\<~username>\Application Data\gramps
On Windows7, it is
C:\Users\<~username>\AppData\Roaming\gramps\gramps34
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{{man note|Note|The location of your Gramps user directory depends on the operating system you are using and how you have set up your computer. <br>In the table below <tt><~username></tt> should be replaced by the name you use to log in to your computer.}}
== POSIX - style systems ==The default user directory location for an installation of Gramps in a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix POSIX]-style [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard environment] is:
/home/<~username>/.gramps
This is true for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd BSD], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Linux], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system) Solaris], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Unix] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X Mac OS-X] when using [[InstallationBuild_from_source#Mac_OS_X:Build_from_source|Mac OS X Build from source]].
=== Mac OS X ===
On Macs, filenames starting with "." do not show up in Finder. To make access to the Gramps user directory easy, open a terminal window with Finder-Applications-Utilities-Terminal and type there
ln -s .gramps gramps_user_directory
~/.gramps
in the Go to Folder dialog box.
The default location for the [[Mac OS X:Application package]] is
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/gramps
== MS Windows ==
The default location for an installation on a Windows 7 and higher system is
C:\Program Files\GrampsAIOXX-4.X.X
The default location for an user data on a Windows 7 and higher system is
C:\Users\<~username>\AppData\Roaming\gramps
On Windows XP and earlier for user data, it is
C:\Documents and Settings\<~username>\Application Data\gramps
{{man index|Gramps_4.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Command_Line#Environment_variables|Gramps 4.1 Wiki Manual - About|4.1}}
