diff --git a/_faqs/2013-04-16-what-is-the-best-way-to-control-greenshots-configuration-at-install-time.markdown b/_faqs/2013-04-16-what-is-the-best-way-to-control-greenshots-configuration-at-install-time.markdown index 1149f80da..d07ee3a92 100644 --- a/_faqs/2013-04-16-what-is-the-best-way-to-control-greenshots-configuration-at-install-time.markdown +++ b/_faqs/2013-04-16-what-is-the-best-way-to-control-greenshots-configuration-at-install-time.markdown @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ published: true title: How can I control Greenshot's configuration during installation and beyond # override permalink for to keep old URLs intact permalink: /faq/what-is-the-best-way-to-control-greenshots-configuration-at-install-time/ -tags: [] +tags: [uses_alerts] --- @@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ Greenshot knows of 3 different files, which are loaded in the following order: 2. greenshot.ini: this is the normal file, with all the settings of the user, which is written by Greenshot. This overrules the settings in the greenshot-defaults.ini file. 3. greenshot-fixed.ini: has settings which will overrule all settings in the files above. -Greenshot will look for every mentioned file, in the described order, first in the same location as the executable (e.g. installation directory) and if there is not there than in %APPDATA%\Greenshot (e.g. ```C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Greenshot\```). +Greenshot will look for every mentioned file, in the described order, first in the same location as the executable (e.g. installation directory) and if it is not there than in the default location %APPDATA%\Greenshot (e.g. ```C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Greenshot\```). + +
+Greenshot needs to be able to write to the greenshot.ini
to work properly. As the running process (greenshot.exe) should not have write permissions to the program files directories, it doesn't make sense to copy a greenshot.ini
there. We do advice you to provide the greenshot-defaults.ini
and greenshot-fixed.ini
in that directory, so they cannot be changed. Let Greenshot itself create the greenshot.ini
to the default location, alternatively you can copy a preconfigured greenshot.ini
yourself to the default location.
+