[Qgis-user] Best way to work in QGIS as 'clean install'

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hi,

There is command line args you can use. --optionspath and --settingspath
which will let you set a folder to write and Save settings to.  This is
what I use when I want a clean QGIS start each time.

Regards,
Nathan

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 5:25 am Michael Treglia <mtreglia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Alex,
>
> Good point about Clones of the VM - I hadn't thought about that, and
> didn't realize it only stores the differences against the original - that
> sounds really useful more broadly too.
>
> Thanks!
> mike.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Alex M <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 01/11/2016 10:59 AM, Michael Treglia wrote:
>> > Hi Everybody,
>> >
>> > I'm updating some training material I use in a course, and want to make
>> > sure I'm viewing things as new users with a clean install would (while
>> > maintaining a copy with everything as I want it configured).  I've
>> figured
>> > out a way to do this, but wanted to see if others have a better
>> solution.
>> >
>> > My method that works just fine (and lets me do screenshots and such) is
>> to
>> > work on QGIS within a Ubuntu virtual machine, from my host Windows pc.
>> >
>> > It seems like a slightly easier way would be to have a separate install
>> of
>> > QGIS on Windows - tried that using two different install methods on the
>> > same user account (OSGeo4W vs Standalone installer), but the standalone
>> > picked up the settings from my OSGeo install.  To work as desired, would
>> > that have to be done on a separate user account?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your thoughts - Cheers,
>> > mike
>> >
>> >
>>
>> +1 Virtual Machine
>> It's the only real way to ensure it's 100% separate. You can also make
>> cheap clones of the VM (only stores the differences), so that you always
>> have a clean base VM to roll back to.
>>
>> I suppose you could login to a different windows account and that would
>> at least not look at your users customization. But I'm not sure if all
>> other settings would be unique.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>
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