Changing Journal Location

[TinfoilChef]

how does one chane the location of the journal files?

I know the main journal location is
C:\Users\[username]\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous

Where can I set a different location for use with a second account?

[Gropax]

you can make a second user on your windows for that second account. that will do it.

[TinfoilChef]

Originally posted by Gropax:

you can make a second user on your windows for that second account. that will do it.

ugh.. I was hoping to avoid that

[Gropax]

and the nice thing is it can have the account details for the second FDev account in it so launching it will be easier.

[TinfoilChef]

Originally posted by Gropax:

and the nice thing is it can have the account details for the second FDev account in it so launching it will be easier.

launching is easy anyway.. I went the way of making a copy of edlaunch.exe e.g. "edlauch copy.exe" and that works for keeping login details separate. would just like to have journal files separate. Figured there should be a config entry someplace where the location could be defined

[Turd Ferguson]

I have all my elite account journals going to the same location. most journal tools are smart enough to only read the account you specify. apparently it's pretty simple and entries are tagged well enough that it's pretty trivial to sort them out.

[TinfoilChef]

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

I have all my users going to the same location. most journal tools are smart enough to only read the account you specify.

Yep. Eddiscovery is great about that. until you clear a save and re-make it with the same commander name... then not so great. old data mixed with new.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by TinfoilChef:

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

I have all my users going to the same location. most journal tools are smart enough to only read the account you specify.

Yep. Eddiscovery is great about that. until you clear a save and re-make it with the same commander name... then not so great. old data mixed with new.

yes. that's the one instance where I can see it would be a problem. :(

fortunately my accounts are all too far along for me to reset them.

[TinfoilChef]

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

Originally posted by TinfoilChef:

Yep. Eddiscovery is great about that. until you clear a save and re-make it with the same commander name... then not so great. old data mixed with new.

yes. that's the one instance where I can see it would be a problem. :(

I came up with a hacky solution... manually went through all the journal files and did a search & replace changing "oldcmdrname" to "deleted" ... was hoping there was a more elegant solution than that... something that doesn't take 2 hours of manual search & replace.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by TinfoilChef:

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

yes. that's the one instance where I can see it would be a problem. :(

I came up with a hacky solution... manually went through all the journal files and did a search & replace changing "oldcmdrname" to "deleted" ... was hoping there was a more elegant solution than that... something that doesn't take 2 hours of manual search & replace.

you know...Windows 10 now supports full Linux commands.....1 well-written sed command and bob's your uncle!

[TinfoilChef]

Originally posted by Turd Ferguson:

Originally posted by TinfoilChef:

I came up with a hacky solution... manually went through all the journal files and did a search & replace changing "oldcmdrname" to "deleted" ... was hoping there was a more elegant solution than that... something that doesn't take 2 hours of manual search & replace.

you know...Windows 10 now supports full Linux commands.....1 well-written sed command and bob's your uncle!

Lol... My answer to win10 when microsloth started pushing it was a neat little program called "never10" (my uncle is Jim -Lol)

& I haven't messed with linux since Debian Lenny