Re: [MiKTeX] problem with settings in MikTeX 2.7

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2008 um 21:39 schrieb Cornelius C. Noack:

>   I used the setting icon of MikTeX 2.7 to set up things; the entries
> in the roots part of the settings menu are now

> Path                                   Description
> ----                                   -----------
> C:\programs\MikTeX_2.7                 Install
> C:\programs\MikTeX_2.7\localmiktex

It's asking for trouble to put a local texmf inside the main
installation tree.

It's also asking for trouble to put a local folder in a folder like
programs which is not meant for single user data but for data used by
all users.  Use the folder C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\ for such
data. That's what they are for. Or create a new folder somewhere else.

> But:
> In contrast to 2.7, the 2.6 roots settings had 3 further
> categories with corresponding descriptions,, which seem to be
> fixed once and for all by the installation wizard, viz.

> Path                                        Description
> ----                                        -----------
> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\...
>    ...Cornelius\Anwendungsdaten\MikTeX\2.6   UserConfig
> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\...
>    ...Cornelius\Anwendungsdaten\MikTeX\2.6   UserData
> C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\...
>    ...All users\Anwendungsdaten\MikTeX\2.6   CommonData

> and these I couldn't change at all (at least I didn't find out
> how to).

You can set this pathes at installation times through options of
setupwiz, e.g. --user-config=dir -> documentation.

> And now I found that MikTeX 2.7 tries to use exactly theses paths,
> even though the settings menu no longer displays them explicitly.

Check the box "show miktex maintained roots".

> My problem with that is that I have Win XP set to put all my user
> data to a separate hard disk, the F: disk (for security and backup 
> reasons), and therefore that's where I want the 3 abovementioned
> folders to reside, but I couldn't find a way to choose these
> settings.

> Obviously I am trying to do something that the MikTeX installation
> wizard doesn't like [ by the way: why does the wizard make a
> difference between the path 'Cornelius' (that's me) and
> 'All users' ? What's the rationale behind that ??]

You installed miktex for "all users", so there is a folder where local
files which can be shared between all users. I don't have this root,
because I installed miktex "only for me".


> What can I do, other than giving up the systematics of having
> programs and user data on 2 different hard disks?

Make a new root where you put all your really local files. E.g. move
this local  \localmiktex to your second disk.

The root UserConfig contains local configuration files. So you should
backup it. But the folder C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\... where
UserConfig is in is used by a lot of applications for their data. So
you should always backup it anyway.

The UserData root contains only data which can be easily recreated
like fndb, pk fonts etc. So you don't need to care. I don't know
if CommonData has data which need to be backup as I don't have a
multiuser setup.




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Ulrike Fischer
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