Library paths
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive active, and
even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as "C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward, complex, and often
unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Thanks!
Jon
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There is an environment variable to set the library paths. Not at a
computer ATM but something like OPENSCADLIBS.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 13:03 jon via Discuss, discuss@lists.openscad.org
wrote:
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive active, and
even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as "C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward, complex, and often
unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Thanks!
Jon
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Thanks! I looked, and there are no environment variables that look
likely, either by name or content.
On 1/27/2024 9:09 AM, nop head via Discuss wrote:
There is an environment variable to set the library paths. Not at a
computer ATM but something like OPENSCADLIBS.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 13:03 jon via Discuss,
discuss@lists.openscad.org wrote:
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive
active, and
even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as "C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward, complex, and
often
unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Thanks!
Jon
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Per: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries
The User-Defined library path can be created using the OPENSCADPATH
Environment
Variable to point to the library(s).
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 8:24 AM jon via Discuss discuss@lists.openscad.org
wrote:
Thanks! I looked, and there are no environment variables that look
likely, either by name or content.
On 1/27/2024 9:09 AM, nop head via Discuss wrote:
There is an environment variable to set the library paths. Not at a
computer ATM but something like OPENSCADLIBS.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 13:03 jon via Discuss, discuss@lists.openscad.org
wrote:
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive active, and
even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as "C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward, complex, and often
unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Thanks!
Jon
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Thank you! What threw me off was that this did not exist already. All set!
Jon
On 1/27/2024 9:35 AM, Leonard Martin Struttmann via Discuss wrote:
Per: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries
The /User-Defined/ library path can be created using the
OPENSCADPATH Environment Variable to point to the library(s).
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 8:24 AM jon via Discuss
discuss@lists.openscad.org wrote:
Thanks! I looked, and there are no environment variables that
look likely, either by name or content.
On 1/27/2024 9:09 AM, nop head via Discuss wrote:
There is an environment variable to set the library paths. Not at
a computer ATM but something like OPENSCADLIBS.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 13:03 jon via Discuss,
<discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive
active, and
even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as
"C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward,
complex, and often
unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD
is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Thanks!
Jon
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On 1/27/2024 5:02 AM, jon via Discuss wrote:
One quirk of Windows 11 is that it starts out with OneDrive active,
and even if you quit out of OneDrive, some paths that were
"C:\users\jon\desktop" remain as "C:\users\jon\onedrive\desktop".
Recovering from this ridiculous situation is awkward, complex, and
often unsuccessful.
I installed OpenSCAD before I disabled OneDrive, so OpenSCAD is using
the wrong paths.
Is there any easy way to adjust the paths used, like editing a
configuration file?
Others have pointed at the OPENSCADPATH environment variable, and that
will work, sort of, but is hiding the question rather than answering it.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Libraries
OpenSCAD looks in four places for libraries:
- The same directory as the file doing the "include" or "use".
- The directories listed in OPENSCADPATH.
- A path under the OS dependent user home directory.
- The "libraries" directory in the directory where OpenSCAD is installed.
You're talking about the third of those. OPENSCADPATH specifies places
to look before that, so quite possibly does get you what you need, but
isn't really the true answer. By way of analogy to Linux or MacOS,using
OPENSCADPATH for this on Windows is roughly equivalent to using
OPENSCADPATH to compensate for the fact that your $HOME is set
incorrectly. It's just more obvious how $HOME is set.
On Windows, the base directory is the CSIDL_PERSONAL directory.
Unfortunately, I don't find any documentation saying how CSIDL_PERSONAL
gets turned into an actual file system path. (Quite possibly it's
version-specific.)
On my Windows 11 system, it looks like maybe it's stored in the
registry at
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User
Shell Folders
in the "Personal" key.
But also: OneDrive has a setting under "Sync and backup" for "Back up
important PC folders to OneDrive". I believe that's the setting that
makes your Documents directory (and others) point at OneDrive. I would
try firing OneDrive up, going to that setting, and turning all of the
directories off, then seeing if that changes the paths you see in
OpenSCAD's "Help / Library Info". (Start a new OpenSCAD; I wouldn't be
surprised if it picks up the value during startup.)
"But also: OneDrive has a setting under "Sync and backup" for "Back up
important PC folders to OneDrive". I believe that's the setting that
makes your Documents directory (and others) point at OneDrive. I would
try firing OneDrive up, going to that setting, and turning all of the
directories off, then seeing if that changes the paths you see in
OpenSCAD's "Help / Library Info". (Start a new OpenSCAD; I wouldn't be
surprised if it picks up the value during startup.)"
I tried to do something like this, but I have turned OneDrive off and on
enough that it no longer seems to want to work at all. I'm not using a
Microsoft account, which adds another wrinkle.
I think the environment variable is doing what I need. Thank you!
Jon
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