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Data folder on Linux and MacOS should not be visible at $HOME

See original GitHub issue

When OpenUtau running on linux, it will create $HOME/OpenUtau as data directory, but the more reasonable way to save data would be create directory at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/OpenUtau or $HOME/.config/OpenUtau

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Created a year ago
Reactions:5
Comments:10 (4 by maintainers)

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Nyaacinthcommented, Mar 23, 2022

Files in OpenUtau folder can easily reach Gigabytes, which seems too large to put in a hidden directory.

However, from the Linux’s general standards, the private data folder of an application is better to be located in a non-$HOME location or being hidden. If you are worrying about the downward compatibility of the application, you can provide a option for users to decide the location of data folder, there will be many people loving it.

PS: Temporary fixed by modify $HOME variable

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Nyaacinthcommented, Mar 28, 2022

When using applications on Linux and MacOS, we usually don’t want it to put non-hidden files under $HOME and treat it as an unexpected behavior then try to prevent it. And there are many other applications have similar issues, like LMMS. And these applications will generally place the data in other locations or allow the user to choose the location of the data. Really hope OpenUtau will have similar features to do it. Thanks