Changing the location of my subsonic folder

[benjammin105]

Hi,
I'm new to the software and love it already. I'm having a bit of a problem now though. I have subsonic installed on windows xp. I have a large music collection saved on my M drive. My drive letter assignments are a little crazy on this machine. Anyways, when the program installs in creates a subsonic folder on my C drive. On this computer C is a really small reserved partition. Windows will not let me reassign a letter to the drive and I can't seem to find a good option in subsonic to change this when installing the program. Everything will be fine for a while, but over time that file will grow larger and fill up that C partition. I need a way to install subsonic entirely on my M drive, or J drive which has all of my other program files located on it. Any ideas? I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious here. Thanks

Ben

[headcase59]

Not sure on how to change the location (or if it's possible), but my 'C:\subsonic' folder is less than 100MB although my music collection located on D: is 135GB. I believe the actual database file is less than 5MB. If you can spare 100MB - 125MB it's probably best to leave it on C:

[bushman4]

To move the Subsonic folder off the C: drive:

• Stop the Subsonic service
• Copy the Subsonic folder from the C: drive to the M: drive
• Using a text editor, open %PROGRAMFILES%\Subsonic\subsonic-service.exe.vmoptions
• Add the following line to the bottom:
  

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  -Dsubsonic.home=m:/subsonic

• Save the file
• Restart the Subsonic Service.

HTH,

Glenn

[benjammin105]

Thanks a lot! That worked great! I've got the program running free of my tiny C drive now. The only problem I'm having now is that my subsonic url isn't working but I'll get that going soon.

[msalinas90]

Is it possible to relocate the folder when using the Tomcat (.war) setup?

[bushman4]

Yes. Add the same setting to your Java Global Variables. for Windows, that is located on the Java tab of the Apache Tomcat Properties, under "Java Options."

Hope this helps,

Glenn

[msalinas90]

Thank you, Glenn!