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Zui is a powerful desktop application for exploring and working with data. The official front-end to the Zed lake.
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Provide preference for default space directory #676

Closed alfred-landrum closed 4 years ago

alfred-landrum commented 4 years ago

With https://github.com/brimsec/brim/issues/673 , we're going to default to creating space directories in <userData>/data/spaces. We can add a Brim preference that will allow a user to specify the default data directory location for space creation. After this preference is set, any spaces created should use a data_dir parameter that includes the specified location.

philrz commented 4 years ago

Details on use case: The default "data dir" might be on a main storage device that has limited space available. However, a user might have some bulk storage like an external multi-TB hard drive where they're happy to store excess amounts of bulky data.

jameskerr commented 4 years ago

The data_dir for a space was the actual .brim folder where all.zng was written to. It seems like this request is for a "spaces root" folder rather than a global data_dir. Am I understanding this correctly?

jameskerr commented 4 years ago

Or is the app still responsible for providing the last bit of the data_dir as well? For example:

<user-provided-data-dir>/sample.pcap.brim <user-provided-data-dir>/my.logs.brim

philrz commented 4 years ago

Verified in Brim commit dc488b1 talking to zqd commit a14daef.

Per the attached video, the picker is helpful in ensuring I only pick a directory and not a file, and that the directory actually exists. Once I've imported data, I can see the relevant directories and files are created in the destination directory I selected.

Verify.zip

Thanks @mason-fish!