Change location of rstudio-prefs.json config file

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Hi,

I'm using RStudio Desktop (1.3.959 - open source licence) on Windows Server 2019 and I would like to move the rstudio-prefs.json user config file from the default location (AppData/Roaming/RStudio) to an other location. I found a blog post indicating that it is possible (https://blog.rstudio.com/2020/02/18/rstudio-1-3-preview-configuration/), but the mean to do that is not mentioned. Is the solution consist in modifying an env variable? In this case, what is this variable?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @AurelDisanto,

I believe the setting you're looking for is this one from the RStudio Server Pro admin guide:

In accordance with the Base Directory Specification, the environment variables 
specify the location of the rstudio folder. For example, to store system-wide 
preference configuration in /var/config/rstudio/rstudio-prefs.json, you would 
set the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable to the value /var/config.
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Hi @alexkgold,

Thank you for your reply :-).
However, this solution seems to be not OK for RStudio Desktop on Windows Server 2019. I think I have to find a workaround to solve my problem ...

Have a good day !

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