I run Joplin 1.0.193 on Linux. And I use the AppImage. I want to have a portable version, so according to the documentation for AppImage all I have to do is have a folder named $(executable_name).home in the same folder and, in theory, ALL files should be hosted in that folder. Yet I notice there …

That’s interesting, can you point me to the documentation where you saw that? I’ve never heard about that, but if it’s a fairly normal feature I could look into seeing if Joplin could support it. That said, the Joplin has unofficial support for manually specifying the profile (where all the data is…

I’m almost certain the only portable version available was the Windows version; maybe the documentation doesn’t make that clear and needs to be reworded a bit?

In the Official Documentation https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/portable-mode.html

[image] bedwardly-down: I’m almost certain the only portable version available was the Windows version; maybe the documentation doesn’t make that clear and needs to be reworded a bit? "Almost certain" usually means "no idea". Please, do not hijack a practical issue.

I don’t appreciate the hostility. This is the second time you have been hostile towards me when my core role on these forums is support and these are an open forum where everyone assists everyone whenever they can. Thank you. I was also referring to the Joplin documentation here. I hadn’t checked t…

I gave it a try on my workstation and it seems to work fine, I’m hesitant to continue testing too much in case it doesn’t work and I mess up my regular installation. If you get it to work please let me know, otherwise I’ll try to get around to fully testing this at some point. The folder I created …

I have checked once more. lsof -c joplin of course the listing is huge. But there are three instances from the same process ID opening files in /home/$(user)/.config/Joplin/GPUCache/ and, there is a folder /home/$(user)/.local/bin/Joplin.AppImage.home/.config/Joplin/GPUCache yet Joplin does no…

Is that the only data you’re seeing in home? Unfortunately the GPUCache is managed by electron and apparently can’t be changed . There is a workaround in the last comment of the link I posted but unfortunately it’s user level not app level. Hopefully this is something that will eventually change, bu…

Okay. Makes sense. But that leads to a second question: Why is there a /home/$(user)/.local/bin/Joplin.AppImage.home/.config/Joplin/GPUCache ? Shouldn’t there be no such folder?

When there exists a Joplin.AppImage.home folder then AppImage will reset the $HOME environment variable to point to it. It looks like something weird is going on in Electron that is causing it to create a folder in the correct location, but when it writes it is using the home location obtained anoth…

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Now, I have no idea if this thread can be marked as Solved or not.

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