Marc,
On 5 Feb 2020, at 9:30 AM, forfoum@... wrote:
Can someone explain why the Users Files Location does not match the Profile Location (disregarding the Dropbox)
I create my profiles a let JMRI take care of things and my User Files Location and Profile Location have always matched up when looking at Locations and that goes for all Locations of all the profiles I have.
The answer is very simple.
Many users want to share the User Files (Roster, Panels, Operations, etc.) between multiple profiles. In my case I have around 20 different hardware profiles (real and simulator profiles for many kinds of hardware) and almost all of them share one set of user files.
It's very much easier to have the User Files located outside any profile, in a common location elsewhere (in my case a JMRI folder in my Dropbox folder). Then if I want to create a simulator profile for connection "xxx" I just make a copy of the hardware profile, call it "xxx Simulator", change connection type in the copy to Simulator and everything just works.
If I want to delete any profile I can and no user data is lost. If a profile gets corrupted settings, I can just delete it without losing my Roster, Panels etc.
Dave in Australia
