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[redgum]

Hi,

As I understand it, the user library is located at %A_MyDocuments%\AutoHotkey\Lib\. How can I change that to a different location?

Thanks!

[MasterFocus]

If you call a function from a file that is not #Included, the script looks for it in 3 places.
See http://l.autohotkey....nctions.htm#lib
I don't think you can "change" the specific location you mentioned though.

[maul.esel]

You can create a hardlink using the mklink command line utility (Windows-built in). That way, you can make any directory appear in %A_MyDocuments%\AutoHotkey\Lib\.

[redgum]

I was hoping to avoid that, but a symbolic link will have to do if that path is hardcoded in HotKey. I was hoping there was a registry key or AHK variable or something that I could set to redirect it...

I keep my scripts in a Dropbox folder, so that they're available on all my machines. I'd like to keep my library there too, to avoid multiple versions getting out of sync... A symbolic link solves that issue, but not the issue of having yet another app creating its own folder in My Documents. Oh well. Call me anal, but I like to be able to control what goes where on my PC.

[Lexikos]

... but not the issue of having yet another app creating its own folder in My Documents.

AutoHotkey doesn't create the folder; you do (or don't). If you don't want to use the Lib folder in My Documents, you can use one of the other two libraries as MasterFocus noted.

[ptbosean]

I am trying to do the same thing. I keep my personal AHK script in an AHK folder in dropbox and then add this into the main autohotkey script on the computers I use AHK on:

#include C:\Users\sheuchert\Desktop\Dropbox\AHK\SeanScripts.ahk

It would be nice to have this feature builtin but this is a decent workaround for me.

Hope that helps,

Sean