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~Mary Reluveroden
Mar 25, 2013, 1:39 PM
5 Posts
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2 data directory trees after multiuser installation

  • Category: Install
  • Platform: Windows
  • Release: 9.0
  • Role: Administrator
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  • Replies: 4

Hello,

on a multiuser installation of the Notes 9.0 Client, the installer creates the same Notes data directory twice.

One directory instance is named as IBM\Notes\Data... and the other Lotus\Notes\Data....

Is there a reason for that or simply a bug?

 

regards,

JT

~Dean Umkrother
Mar 25, 2013, 2:04 PM
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~Emile Zennulitikle
Mar 25, 2013, 2:11 PM
14 Posts
One is a symlink to the other...
for backward/forward compatibility we create a symlink.  If this is clean install of Notes 9, we populate the IBM\Notes\Data directory and create a symlink from Lotus\Notes\Data to it. If this is an upgrade from Notes 8 (or older) we populate the Lotus\Notes\Data directory and create a symlink from IBM\Notes\Data to it.

~Mary Reluveroden
Mar 26, 2013, 7:58 AM
5 Posts
RE: 2 data directory trees after multiuser installation

Thank you for the info,

is there a way to disable the creation of the symlink and only use the new directory structure?

 

regards

JT

~Emile Zennulitikle
Mar 26, 2013, 6:30 PM
14 Posts
Yes
If you set the property NOLEGACYSYMLINK=1 either on the installer command line or within a transform, then the symlink will not be created.

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