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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:07:22 +0200
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Subject: Re: Install puts home in /c/Users
From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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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.

> 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.

Csaba
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