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

[Michael Treglia]

Ah, these suggestions are super useful! Thanks!

Cheers,
Mike

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> 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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