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Documents folder diagnosis #3576

Open KjellMorgenstern opened 4 years ago

KjellMorgenstern commented 4 years ago

Problem

The documents folder might move, or the user might want to have the documents folder at a different location. Fritzing does not deal well with this. See for example #3420

Proposed Solution

  1. Add some sanity checks, give a clear error message if the folder is not there
  2. Ask the user for an alternative location in case the folder can not be found as expected, and store it in Fritzing.conf
KjellMorgenstern commented 2 years ago

Also related: #3404 and #3270

Reynolds-Beta commented 2 years ago

Suggestion: If you do show a clear error message, be sure to show the full path to the expected folder not just the relative path. I do like the alternative location idea.