goldenCheetah.inin missing

[Guy Melville]

Hello,

Following my recently raised issue on the location of teh Athlete Library location not updating.

I have now checked the Wiki and Issues and Chat.

It appears that I need a GoldenCheetah.ini , which doesn't exist on my system. The Wiki suggest that it should be in AppData/Roaming for golden Cheeta, but this does not exist on my system and the Appdata/local does not have it either.  I have checked the dode, and the repository lists no such file.

Any ideas?

[Ale Martinez]

https://groups.google.com/g/golden-cheetah-users/c/eqGJxDd7bRM 

[Ale Martinez]

El jueves, 15 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 6:15:31 p.m. UTC-3, guy.t.m...@gmail.com escribió:

Hello,

Following my recently raised issue on the location of teh Athlete Library location not updating.

I have now checked the Wiki and Issues and Chat.

BTW, this is an example of what a user should NOT do when has a problem: first create a GitHub issue, please don’t do that. I can understand new users doing that, but from long time users this is unacceptable.

The expected behavior would be: read the relevant part of the wiki, search this forum, discuss your problem here providing enough context to get help, ideally from other users. When and if a bug is confirmed is the time to create a GitHub use, it is the last resource not the first one.

Thanks for your collaboration, Ale.

[Guy Melville]

Thanks for your response.

I've now read this Wikki and other links that you suggested relating to my issue.

I still have an issue.

I don't have a goldencheetah.inin file on my system. For whatever reason it has not been reated or installed, or being written to by my installation of GC v3.7 sp1.

I don't have a goldencheetah.org folder in my appdat/roaming folder.

Consequently, the application defaults to teh appdata/local/golden cheetah directory to find my athletes and cannot change from this.

Please advise to my steps forwards that would resolve the situation?

Best regards,

Guy

[Ale Martinez]

El viernes, 16 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 9:30:51 a.m. UTC-3, guy.t.m...@gmail.com escribió:

Thanks for your response.

I've now read this Wikki and other links that you suggested relating to my issue.

I still have an issue.

I don't have a goldencheetah.inin file on my system. For whatever reason it has not been reated or installed, or being written to by my installation of GC v3.7 sp1.

I don't have a goldencheetah.org folder in my appdat/roaming folder.

Consequently, the application defaults to teh appdata/local/golden cheetah directory to find my athletes and cannot change from this.

Please advise to my steps forwards that would resolve the situation?

IMHO there is a deeper issue about being a user of a FOSS project you don't understand, and you have exhausted my patience, so I hope others can help you, I am done. 

[Guy Melville]

Good afternoon Ale and others,

I did not mean to upset you. I'm sorry that you don't have the patience to deal with apparently simple issues.

I realise that this is a contribution project.  Sadly I don't have the time right now to become fully acquainted with the complexities of GC. 

I thought that you might care about the user experience and the performance of your application.

Afterall, if I were a new user, experiencing the same issue, would you treat me in the same way.

I know that this is not a commercial  application, however, it is common courtesy to help a user as best you can.  If you do not feel that you can do this, then perhaps you should leave all user relations to others.

I look forward to hearing what others can advise.

Best regards, 

Guy