I see what i missed and understand what you say. now though I have to find all the places that put files and change them so they all point to runtime\tmp as the base address.
========================= BJ Freeman http://bjfreeman.elance.com Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> Adrian Crum sent the following on 4/24/2010 11:34 AM: > There is no need to change that. The JVM user dir is not the same thing as an > "OFBiz user" user dir. > > The problematic code just needs to be changed to point to the correct folder > (runtime/tmp). Use an existing method to get that folder location, or create > a method if it doesn't exist. > > -Adrian > > --- On Sat, 4/24/10, BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> wrote: > >> From: BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> >> Subject: Re: Set Dir for user files >> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org >> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 11:15 AM >> the start.java code uses the >> user.dir >> if change the code to so the user.dir is not used does it >> break anything. >> I showed how it is used now. >> >> ========================= >> BJ Freeman >> http://bjfreeman.elance.com >> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation >> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> >> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> >> >> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist >> >> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man >> Linkedin >> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> >> >> >> Adrian Crum sent the following on 4/24/2010 10:42 AM: >>> I don't understand the question. Could you rephrase it >> please? >>> -Adrian >>> >>> --- On Sat, 4/24/10, BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> >> wrote: >>>> From: BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> >>>> Subject: Re: Set Dir for user files >>>> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org >>>> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:24 AM >>>> any reason I can not take the >>>> user.dir out of the start.Java. >>>> >>>> if >> (ofbizHome >>>> == null) { >>>> >> >>>> ofbizHome = props.getProperty("ofbiz.home", "."); >>>> >> // >>>> get a full path >>>> >> if >>>> (ofbizHome.equals(".")) { >>>> >> >>>> ofbizHome = >> System.getProperty("user.dir"); >>>> >> >>>> ofbizHome = >> ofbizHome.replace('\\', '/'); >>>> >> >>>> System.out.println("Set >> OFBIZ_HOME to - " + >>>> ofbizHome); >>>> >> } >>>> >> } >>>> >>>> ========================= >>>> BJ Freeman >>>> http://bjfreeman.elance.com >>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation >> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> >>>> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> >>>> >>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist >>>> >>>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man >>>> Linkedin >>>> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> >>>> >>>> >>>> Adrian Crum sent the following on 4/24/2010 10:15 >> AM: >>>>> Good idea. Could you create a patch and submit >> it to >>>> Jira? >>>>> -Adrian >>>>> >>>>> --- On Sat, 4/24/10, BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> >>>> wrote: >>>>>> From: BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net> >>>>>> Subject: Set Dir for user files >>>>>> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org >>>>>> Date: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 10:01 AM >>>>>> from the other email about misc files >>>>>> being in the ofbizHome it went to >>>>>> investigate why. I thought they were >> suppose to go >>>> to the >>>>>> runtime/tmp >>>>>> so in the base code it uses "user.dir" as >> a way to >>>> find >>>>>> ofbizHome. >>>>>> There is a property "ofbiz.home". >>>>>> there is code that uses >>>>>> String >> path >>>> = >>>>>> System.getProperty("user.dir") + >> "/spreadsheet"; >>>>>> I suggest the user.dir be set to >>>>>> "ofbiz.home"+"\runtime\tmp" >>>>>> this allows the user files to be cleaned >> using the >>>> ant >>>>>> clean-all >>>>>> >>>>>> ========================= >>>>>> BJ Freeman >>>>>> http://bjfreeman.elance.com >>>>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier >> Automation >>>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=93> >>>>>> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/> >>>>>> >>>>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist >>>>>> >>>>>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man >>>>>> Linkedin >>>>>> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > >