Change Database Location
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Is it possible to change the location of the H18 Star catalog database? I have a relatively small C drive and prefer to keep all my star catalogs on my D drive. I cannot find in ASTAP where to set the path for the star catalogs. Is there a config file or something that I can edit to manually change the path to the star catalog?
I orginally installed the H18 star catalog on my D drive. Now if I run the catelog installer again it does not give me the option to change the database path. If anyone knows how to change the path to the star database I would appreciate the help.
It is only possible for the commmand line, option -d , see:
http://www.hnsky.org/astap.htm#astap_command_line
If you use ASTAP directly, it is not possible. But you could also move astap.exe and the few .csv files to the d: drive.
If I remember well, the H18 will look to the ASTAP path or H18 installed path. So if you want to install it at an other path, you have to first unistall them. But you can also just move the files. The location is not critical. ASTAP and H18 files have to be at the same location that's all.
Regards, Han
@han.k Thanks for your help. I was able to get working by copying all the files into the same directlry as you suggested.
Andrew
Does anyone have the path for the Mac? When i try to locate ine it gives me the path for the PC.
For the Mac the database(s) are in default in
/usr/local/opt/astap