How to change location of Profile?

Is there no way to move a profile?

I wonder how to file a bug report for the hard coding of paths in the misc files in the profile folder.

Can anyone at Songbird help?

Anyone? ...?

I'll help you:

Under Windows: Start --> Run: "C:\Programm Files\Songbird\Songbird.exe -p"

Then you open the Profilemanager of Songbird. There you can create a new one or edit the default one.

Hope this works!
Manuel

my question is linked to this one. I have a dual boot (linux and winxXP) machine.

Windows is mounted under linux (such that I can see the whole windows partitions).
I would like to work with only one profile in both OS.

To do this:
1) I have have to force songbird under windows to use a "custom" path for the user profile such that I can move the user profile say under D:\one71\songbird (C:\ is NTFS and linux "wirte" on NTFS is not 100% safe).

Say I mount D:\one71\songbird in linux under /windows/D/one71/songbird

2) I have to force songbird under linux to use a "custom" path for the user profile and use the path /windows/D/one71/songbird

questions: how to do (1), (2)? and will it work? I mean can I use the same profile on 2 OS? (in firefox and thunderbird works ....)

Manuel -

thanks, but that doesn't help answer my question. I need to move the profile, not create a new one. If I try to do it with the method you suggest I run into th eproblem in my original post.

I was really hoping to hear from someone from songbird on this...

I'll try to help you:

1) Open %Appdata% in the explorer or press Win+R and type %appdata%.
In the folder "Songbird2" open the "Profiles" Folder and open your preferred Profile (if you have multiple). Mostly it's called "NUMBERS.default".

2) Copy the content of your profile-folder.

3) Start Songbird with "songbird -p" and create a new profile. There you can select where to save your data.

4) Start Songbird in the new profile and close it after a successful start.

5) Move to the profile folder on your external disk and paste the content of the old folder (overwrite old files).

Cheers

Lukas

Hallo Lukas,

I have tried your suggestion (with songbird 1.0) but it does not seem to me like it is working properly.

I have created a new profile with another path (say "test"), close songbird, copied the "default" profile directory content into the "test" profile directory start again songbird with songbird -p and choose to start it with the "test" profile.

1) Say I keep the "default" profile --> when I open the new "test" profile the profile works properly. Say I do some changes in the "test" profile then I close it and open the "default" profile again ==> out of some reason I find the changes done in the "test" profile in the "default" profile too: like they would be just a link one to the other!!!!
2) Say at "songbird -p start" I choose to remove the "default" profile and choose to open the "test" profile. The "test" profile is "broken". The overall settings are correct (color scheme, adds-on etc) but there is no library (where normally the songs are listed there is white empty field), and even an import media does not help. The profile is useless ....

So what to do?
Another question while running songbird how to see the path of the profile used?

Hi one71,
Yes, there is a way to get the library path.
Open the Configuration page (type about:config in the url bar). If you search for library, there should appear a variable with the path in it.

Again me: The Name of the variable is songbird.library.loader.0.databaseLocation what about changing the value?

This looks like it is working fine (at least with 1.1 .. I have updated in the meantime).
about:config --> find "location" --> you find 2 entries xxx.loader.0.databaseLocation
xxx.loader.1.databaseLocation
change the value of both of them to the new path you want
close songbird.
MOVE the original "default profile directory" into the new path you want.
Open songbird again: you are using the new profile path .... I still have to test the dual boot thing

I still haven't tried the dual boot but it looks like (http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...) (it will not work (and if you think about it it is clear why) .......add in future (near future) release: easy profile home change + dual boot?