Move Spyder config folder (~/.spyder2 in linux) to another location

[filippo82]

Dear all,

I need to move Spyder config folder to another location.
In GNU/Linux, by default, it is located in ~/.spyder. I want to move it to another location, such as /secondarydisk/software/spyder/spyder-config.

Is that possible? I have been looking for the answer on the Google Groups with no success...

Thanks a lot.
Best wishes.

[Carlos Córdoba]

Hi,

There's no way to move Spyder settings directory to another location. You'll have to edit Spyder source code to do that :-)


Cheers,
Carlos

El 30/06/16 a las 13:41, filippo82 escribió:

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[Joseph Martinot-Lagarde]

It should work with a symbolic link:

mv ~/.spyder /secondarydisk/software/spyder/spyder-config/
ln -s /secondarydisk/software/spyder/spyder-config/.spyder ~/

[filippo82]

Dear Carlos,

thanks a lot for your quick reply.
Unfortunately, because the home directories on our system are on a (slow) server, Spyder takes ages to start. I have checked the network activity and files involved during its starting process and the culprits are definitely the files located in ~/.spyder2.
I don't have admin permission on my system and I will most likely not be able to install all the required dependencies to properly compile Spyder from source.

Thanks again and cheers,
-Filippo

[filippo82]

Hi Joseph,

thanks for your reply.
That is how I had solved the problem too :) I was just wondering if there was a more elegant way to do that.

Thanks agian.
Best,
-Filippo