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Many people have asked us for the ability to change the locations that Furcadia saves its various settings, logs, and other files.
This would allow them to create an installation of Furcadia on a USB drive, and have it save everything to that drive, so you could carry Furcadia on a keyring!
It would allow people to install Furcadia onto a CD and write its settings to a temporary folder on the hard drive.
It would even allow Linux users running it under WINE to save everything to somewhere in their home directories.
The file "localdir.ini" lets you do all that, and more.
There are two different ways to create it, depending what you want to do. If all you want is to have everything saved into the same place (such as a USB drive), or if you just want to go back to the "old" way of saving everything to your Furcadia folder, then all you need to do is create an empty file.
Browse to the folder you installed Furcadia to (usually somewhere like C:\Program Files\Furcadia).
Rightclick in the folder area, and click "create new text file".
This will create a file called something like "new text file.txt", or "text file - new.txt". Rename the file to "localdir.ini".
You may get a warning that you are changing the extension of the file. Click to confirm that you want to do this.
You have now created the file. Any time you open a Furcadia program, it will now look within the Furcadia folder for its settings files, and this is where it will save them. Logs will be saved to the "logs" subfolder. DreamEd and the DS Editor will save their settings to the "settings" subfolder.
Perhaps, though, you want to save your settings and logs to somewhere other than the Furcadia folder. Perhaps you have installed Furcadia onto a CD, perhaps you are using WINE... there are any number of reasons someone might want to tell their computer exactly where it may stick its files. And localdir.ini lets you do this.
To do this, open notepad, and drag and drop the localdir.ini file you have created into notepad.
Type in the full path and folder you wish Furcadia to save within: for example, D:\data\furcadia\
Save the file.
You have now given Furcadia a new folder to look in to find and write its settings, and to save its logs.
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