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Move Sandbox folder

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:44 am
by UPieper
Hi,

I´d like to move my sandbox container folder to a faster ssd-disk. On the "set container folder" screen there's a note saying "that I should delete all contents in all sandboxes before moving the container folder". Since I have so many separate dedicated sandboxes I'd really like to avoid that. So my question really is if there's a way to avoid that? Maybe by doing a search and replace in some ini files?

Thanks in advance for any tips

Max

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:09 am
by tzuk
You should take that note to mean: Don't forget to delete your old sandboxes in the old container folder.

There is no problem with moving everything to another location and then changing the top level folder.

Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 11:52 am
by UPieper
Ok, thanks Tzuk!

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:24 am
by UPieper
A question which popped up in my head when I was moving my sandboxes:

Is it possible to define multiple container folders? I'm asking because I have a couple of games installed in sandboxes which occupy >10GB each. I would like to keep them on my "normal" drive, since there's not enough space on my SSD.

If this is not possible, could it be added to Sandboxie? I think that would be a nice feature

Regards,

Max

Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:42 pm
by tzuk
It's possible, but you need to manually edit the configuration file and insert FileRootPath settings for each sandbox that should use a non-default location. More here:

http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?FileRootPath

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:10 am
by UPieper
Great!.....Sandboxie really is a hell of a program...One of my best software investements ever!

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:56 am
by tzuk
Thanks :)

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 8:41 am
by Simple_One
You really have thought of everything by now haven't you?

Glad I searched before asking, the FileRootPath parameter was exactly what I was looking for, nice work!