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Subject:	Install puts home in /c/Users
From:	Lee Savidge <lee DOT savidge AT gmail DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

I've been using cygwin for many years simply because of the number of
tools it gives me that Windows simply doesn't have or doesn't do very
well. A while ago my install of cygwin suddely changed my home
directory from

/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/myuseraccount

to

/cygdrive/c/users/mywindowsuser

I can't recall when it happened. I've lived with it for a while and
put up with it. I have recently removed the entire installationand
reinstalled using the 64bit installer. I thought a fresh install would
sort it out.

No.

Cygwin installed correctly in C:\cgwin64 which is exactly where I want
it. There is a home directory under there which no longer seems to be
the target of my home directory. After installing what I wanted out of
what was available for 64bit I found the the home directory is still:

/cygdrive/c/users/mywindowsuser

Firstly, why? Why make my cygwin home directory use the same folder
that Windows uses which is full of a load of stuff that Windows needs
to keep?

Secondly, how can I put it back as it used to be so that when I opened
bash it defaulted to my home directory which was mapped to

/cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/myuseraccount

I know I could put in the bashrc file a cd which changes directory to
the home directory under cygwin but that means my real home directory
is still under /users which isn't what I want.

Once I've sorted that I will be a happy bunny. I've looked through the
mailing lists and I can't find anything that helps but then I might
not be searching for the right terminology.

After that my next job is to get rid of the /cygdrive mount points. It
just makes typing Windows paths unnecessarily long winded.


Thanks in advance.

Lee

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