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

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Yep, I would go for the command line args too:

if you find the bat file which starts qgis and change it to add the
command line args, you start with a qgis which puts all normal settings
and options in a (temp) directory you point to:

about class room setups:

http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en
and
http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/26/

Regards,

Richard

On 11-01-16 20:41, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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