Settings storage and relocation of AutoHotkey folder from Documents

[A Keymaker]

[Coming out from this discussion: viewtopic.php?f=60&t=105064&p=467681#p467681]

Where are the settings stored? Do I have to copy all content of the C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\Documents\AutoHotkey\SciTE in order to preserve them?

And can I change location of that C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\Documents\AutoHotkey folder? Or a least make it hidden? Or do I have to use portable version in order to set my own settings folder because there for sure will be some issues after relocating an installed version's settings folder?


I hate it when anything installs parts of itself in my Documents, because I use this folder only for temporary stuff and unimportant garbage of all kind, that if I loose in anyway then it should not be a problem for me. It brings chaos to my system and thus is counterproductive

[For comparison: I use CorelDRAW which installs itself partially to Documents - and in theory user can change this later on a feature-by-feature basis. But as my experience have shown I had to revert my changes because of arose problems; which are a fault of a not thoughtful enough design. The only thing I could do was to make its folder hidden - but then again sometimes I need to un-hide it first in order to access certain items from it from within Corel]

[A Keymaker]

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Where are the settings stored? Do I have to copy all content of the C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\Documents\AutoHotkey\SciTE in order to preserve them?

And can I change location of that C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\Documents\AutoHotkey folder? Or a least make it hidden? Or do I have to use portable version in order to set my own settings folder because there for sure will be some issues after relocating an installed version's settings folder?
[...]

Well, doesn't anyone know answers to these simple questions?

[A Keymaker]

Well it seems that this folder can be set as hidden, alleviating the issue to some extent - but it must be made un-hidden when a user attempt to access the

Tools > SciTE4AutoHotkey Settings...

window, because without doing so an error message will show informing about inability to find whatever is needed


What about relocating that entire

C:\Users\YOUR-USER-NAME\Documents\AutoHotkey

folder then?

[lexikos]

You can override it by setting the SciTE_USERHOME environment variable as per the SciTE documentation.

Anything else that relies on Documents\AutoHotkey is optional.

but it must be made un-hidden when a user attempt to access the Tools > SciTE4AutoHotkey Settings... window

I can't think of any technical reason for that, and it works just fine for me with Documents\AutoHotkey and Documents\AutoHotkey\SciTE hidden. (I do not have SciTE_USERHOME set, and have hidden only the folders, not their contents.)