Multiple Users/Data Directories

BitPim stores its settings for the current user. If you have multiple users, and login to your operating system as separate users, then it will work fine. (On Windows XP, use the windows key together with L to switch users). This is the recommended way of doing things.

If you only login to your computer as one user, but would like to have separate BitPim data settings for multiple users, then you will need to tell BitPim either the data directory name or the configuration file name upon initialization.

BitPim now stores all of its Settings in a configuration file with a default name of .bitpim. The name of the current data directory and configuration file are displayed in the Settings dialog. To specify a different data directory, you can use the following command:

bitpim -d [data dir name]

To specify a different configuration file to use, use the following command:

bitpim -c [config file name]

In Windows, files with extension .bitpim are associated with the BitPim program, ie, you can double-click on such a file to launch BitPim using that file as the configuration file. As a result, to use a different data directory, Windows users can simply double-click on the associated configuration file located in that data directory.

To create and use a new BitPim data directory, Windows users can do the following steps:

1. Create a new data directory.
2. In that data directory, create an empty file named .bitpim
3. Double-click on the .bitpim file to launch BitPim using the new configuration file and data directory.

If you want to create and use a new BitPim data directory, but also want to maintain previous BitPim settings, you can do the following steps:

1. Create a new data directory.
2. Copy the previous BitPim configuration file to the new data directory.
3. Double-click on the copied configuration file in the new data directory.

BitPim Online Help             built 27 December 2006