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[Elizabeth M Smith <emsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/13/2010 11:17 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Elizabeth M Smith
> <emsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
> > I was referring to the fact that by default the data directory for mysql
> > installs is in the application directory
> > So if you didn't "upgrade" but instead installed both side by side, it would
> > have a new blank data directory
> > And the user, thinking they've simply upgraded and not done a new install
> > would be utterly confused.
> > Just making sure that even if our "upgrades" are side by side that we have a
> > way to migrate user settings and data for applications.
> >      
> Wasn't it changed to some stupid location like All Users some time ago?
> The data dir is specified by the conf file and I'm sure our intend is
> to not lose the conf file. ;)
>
> Olaf
>    
The point I was trying to make is that other applications will have 
similar issues and not all are smart enough to have a conf file to 
specify it (and what if the user changes the location?)  - we need some 
kind of way for the "upgrade" to specify migration data if we're not 
doing in place upgrades.

Thanks,
Elizabeth