Don't use home directory for storage

RangerMauve / dat-store

A CLI tool for backing up hyperdrive datasets

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

59 stars 14 forks source link

Don't use home directory for storage #8

Closed RangerMauve closed 5 years ago

RangerMauve commented 5 years ago

As per https://github.com/datproject/dat/issues/1093 we shouldn't be storing data in the .dat dir in the home folder. We should instead use the OS-specific folders for application data.

RangerMauve commented 5 years ago

I'm going to make use of the conf module for this.

RangerMauve commented 5 years ago

Added in https://github.com/datproject/dat-store/commit/a453c2988787d75c2552dd04bf4570e11ee3cc84

34r7h commented 5 years ago

Similar problem, from home dir ubuntu 18 lts dat share Directory contains incompatible dat metadata. Please remove your old .dat folder (rm -rf .dat)