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Help Using Inkscape => Beyond the Basics => Topic started by: ihocking on October 04, 2017, 03:09:44 PM
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Is it possible to change the template folder? In Win10 mine is C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\templates
As I use a number of different computers I would like to put it in a dropbox folder.
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Welcome to the forum!
When you say "dropbox folder", do you mean that you want Inkscape to browse to the dropbox website and open a template that you saved there?
Not unless you know....I forget which language it is, but if you know the right language, and you could program Inkscape to do that, I guess it's possible.
But if you've saved the templates on dropbox, they must be SVG files, right? All you need to do is open them using Inkscape. Instead of opening Inkscape first, browse to dropbox first. Click to download the file.
If you have SVG files associated with Inkscape on all the computers, when you click to download the SVG file from dropbox, the computer will automatically suggest that you use Inkscape to open it. (At least that's how it works on Windows.) I don't know if you could double-click on the file in dropbox, and Inkscape will automatically open it. But it might.
Or you could just load whatever templates you need into Inkscape's user directory, on all of the computers. You would just need to do it once. Are they all Windows computers?
Or maybe you could carry around the templates on a little USB drive, or something like that?
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Custom templates should be saved in this directory, not in the directory that gets uninstalled when you change Inkscape versions:
Edit > Preferences > System: User config , and a directory named 'templates' in that directory.
You can then either replace that templates directory with a symlink to your dropbox folder (and please, keep a backup... One should never ever rely on any third-party cloud service), or you can set the environment variable INKSCAPE_PROFILE_DIR to a different folder (where all the user configuration files must be saved, this changes the folder in Edit > Preferences > System: User config).