Athlete Library Location

[Haydn Foster]

How do I change the location of the athlete library from default to a new folder on D: drive - GC 3.7SP1 (Win)?  So far it refuses to change and remains at default.

[Ale Martinez]

See https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/wiki/UG_Special-Topics_Setting-the-athlete-library

[Haydn Foster]

I've tried this a number of times.  It does not work.  When you change the location to an empty folder on another drive and save the dialog, GC says it will restart when you save, but it does NOT.  When you manually restart, the Athlete library is still the default location of C:\Users\(name)\AppData\Local\GoldenCheetah\(athlete name)  The configglobal-general.ini file still points to this location.

This has to be a bug.

[Peret]

Can it be a problem of permissions on configglobal-general.ini?

[Ale Martinez]

El domingo, 4 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 11:32:10 p.m. UTC-3, haydn.f...@gmail.com escribió:

I've tried this a number of times.  It does not work.  When you change the location to an empty folder on another drive and save the dialog, GC says it will restart when you save, but it does NOT.  When you manually restart, the Athlete library is still the default location of C:\Users\(name)\AppData\Local\GoldenCheetah\(athlete name)  The configglobal-general.ini file still points to this location.

That is likely the last athlete open, the Athletes library doesn’t include the athlete name and it is saved in GoldenCheetah.ini, this is explained in the wiki page I linked above and its links.

[Haydn Foster]

I have carefully followed the instructions in the above links, and this still does not work.  I have uninstalled, then reinstalled (as administrator), and still cannot change the Athlete Library location no matter what I do.  GoldenCheetah.ini only contains the name of the last opened athlete, not the explicit library location.  I don't know if this has any bearing on the issue but when installing, the included VC++Redistributable refuses to install as I already have the 2105-2022 VC++ Redistributable (X64 and X86) on my system.  Also, R is not packaged in the installer and is not present on my system.  Other than this, GC appears to function correctly in all aspects.

[Ale Martinez]

El lunes, 5 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 8:23:26 p.m. UTC-3, haydn.f...@gmail.com escribió:

I have carefully followed the instructions in the above links, and this still does not work.  I have uninstalled, then reinstalled (as administrator), and still cannot change the Athlete Library location no matter what I do.  GoldenCheetah.ini only contains the name of the last opened athlete, not the explicit library location. 

This is a fragment of my GoldenCheetah.ini:

[General]

...
homedirectory=C:/Users/amtri/AppData/Local/GoldenCheetah

...

homedirectory key indicates the athlete's library location, if not present a default location for the OS is used, IIRC.

[Haydn Foster]

Thanks very much for that.  The homedirectory= entry in my GoldenCheetah.ini was blank, so I manually added the desired path and now GC recognises the new library location.  For some reason the options dialog in GC is not writing the new entry into GoldenCheetah.ini.  GC is updating other settings in the .ini file, just not the homedirectory.

For the time being it appears you have to manually edit GoldenCheetah.ini to change the homedirectory.

[Ale Martinez]

El lunes, 5 de enero de 2026 a la(s) 9:25:49 p.m. UTC-3, haydn.f...@gmail.com escribió:

Thanks very much for that.  The homedirectory= entry in my GoldenCheetah.ini was blank, so I manually added the desired path and now GC recognises the new library location.  For some reason the options dialog in GC is not writing the new entry into GoldenCheetah.ini.  GC is updating other settings in the .ini file, just not the homedirectory.

For the time being it appears you have to manually edit GoldenCheetah.ini to change the homedirectory.

Yes, it will be fixed in the next build:  https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/pull/4792