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jforsyth14-Alexandrite
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August 8, 2016
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What is the difference between the User's "Home" Profile Directory and the User's Working Directory

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I am new to CREO 2.0 and have been assign the duties of System Admin.

I am placing all of my config.pro and config.sup files in the CREO\<loadpoint>\common files\text folder.

Looking at the documentation I noticed it talks about two different directories:

  • User's "Home" Profile Directory
  • User's Working Directory

What is the difference?

thanks


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Best answer by jforsyth

Thanks for the help

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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August 8, 2016

On a Windows computer, "Home" is usually "My Documents".  In an IT managed environment, this may be redirected to someplace else on the network.  An easy way to determine where this is pointing is to open a Windows Command Prompt and type "set" (then press enter).  Look for the values of the environment variables HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and HOMESHARE.

The default working directory is simply the start in location for Creo, usually determined by the shortcut.  Right click on the shortcut and choose "properties", then look at the "Start in" location.  This will be the default working directory when Creo is first started.

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jforsyth14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
August 8, 2016

Thanks for the information.

the default working directory, as far as I can tell, is C:\Users\Public\Documents.

Is there any reason to put anything for CREO in the User's "Home" Profile Directory?

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TomU23-Emerald IV
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August 8, 2016

It depends.  If you have multiple users of the same computer, the Home directory will be unique to each user while the start in location may be common.  Typically we use the working directory (start in location) for computer specific settings and the user's home directory (redirected to a network location in our case) for user specific settings that we want to follow the user around regardless of where they log on.

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