VS Arduino - Setting users library folder location

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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 256 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Setting users library folder location Dec 6^th, 2021 at 10:34am	Print Post
	I just installed VM on a new Windows 11 machine and it has set the users library folder to a folder that is backed up by OneDrive. When I open Micro Explorer I can go to the folder by clicking on the 'View the user libraries folder' link at the bottom of the Library Manager tab. I don't want it there but I can't find any setting that I can use to change the location. Where is the setting located?


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12191 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: Setting users library folder location Reply #1 - Dec 6^th, 2021 at 4:01pm	Print Post
	With Arduino the user libraries folder is always a sub folder of the sketch book folder. Therefore by default, it is documents/arduino/libraries. We are considering expanding the functionality so allow for multiple library folders but currently we do same as Arduino. More info, maybe of no use... In Visual Micro it is also possible to use specific versions of libraries for one or more projects, these can be located anywhere. For that, you need to use the shared library project facility (see the add code menu). Shared libraries are an advanced feature, unless manually moved, they "fix" a project to use a specific version of a library and from a specific location. They are powerfull but need to be used carefully.


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Acuario Senior Member Offline Posts: 256 Location: Spain Joined: Aug 28^th, 2015	Re: Setting users library folder location Reply #2 - Dec 7^th, 2021 at 5:00am	Print Post
	Ok, that answered my question in a round about way. From the Arduino IDE changing the sketchbook location in the preferences achieves what I wanted to do and I now have my libraries located in a folder of my choosing.


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