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

>On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Lee Savidge  wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>(snip)
>>
>> 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?

>Presumably because that's the place for _your_ stuff, and you are sure
>to have write rights.

No, this is the place that Windows creates under Windows 7 for User
account folders. I didn't create this folder structure. It was created
when I installed Windows on the machine. Yes I have rights. I'm not on
a domain and I'm the administrator of this computer.

>> 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 had this happen to me at work ($HOME pointed to a network drive
>instead of C:\cygwin\home\...) and IIRC the solution was to unset the
>%HOMEDRVE% and %HOMEDIR% environment variables before installing.

Now this is interesting. In my environment variables in Windows, HOME
points to %USERPROFILE% which equates to C:\Users\mywindowsaccount

There are no %HOMEDRVE% or %HOMEDIR% variables.

I am assuming that Windows has decided to make use of the HOME
variable which points to my Windows user account folder home. Does
Cygwin also use this? Can I make Cygwin use its own so I can repoint
it to its original folder?

Thanks,

Lee

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