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Re: Install puts home in /c/Users
- From: Lee Savidge <lee dot savidge at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 15:19:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: Install puts home in /c/Users
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>I assume you have a variable called HOME in your windows environment.
>If so, remove it and try again.
>
>Also, how do you start Cygwin? Do you use the default "Cygwin{64}
>Terminal" shortcut? If so, this shouldn't happen since the Cygwin
>terminal (aka mintty) will cd to your home dir as in /etc/passwd
>when started with the "-" option, as is the case for the Cygwin{64}
>Terminal shortcut.
>
>If you start Cygwin via some self-created shortcut, or if you use
>the old "Cygwin" shortcut which starts a shell in a console window,
>the default is to use $HOME from the environment.
>
>
>Corinna
Corinna, you star!
Tried recreating the shortcut via setup and that did create me a new
one which didn't solve the issue. I always had my own in the
quicklaunch toolbar. I hate desktop icons and almost every app you
install these days foists one on you whether you want it or not.
I then removed the HOME variable and started bash again and it has now
created my home again :)
Yay!
Now just waiting for ncftp to be available in the 64bit install
(hoping) and I'll be set again. I saw that you had said it was missing
in a previous post.
Many thanks,
Lee
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