Appendix B: What J-Bird stores where on your computer

Installer metadata

• Mac OS X - none stored!
• MS Windows.
  • VAInstall data are likely to be in:
  • C:\Program Files\Common Files\vainstall or
  • C:\Documents and Settings\yourhome\vainstall.
  • System uninstall information is in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\J-Bird-0.5.2.
• Unix/Linux - in directory ~/.vainstall.

Software - default locations

• Mac OS X - none. J-Bird is wherever you dragged the icon.
• MS Windows - assume that the system disk is C:. The installer is likely to suggest one of the following:
  • C:\Program Files\J-Bird,
  • C:\Documents and Settings\yourhome\J-Bird.
• Unix/Linux - ~/J-Bird.

Observation data, configuration and state

• Mac OS X - ~/Library/Application Support/J-Bird.
• MS Windows.
  • %APPDATA%\J-Bird on systems on which %APPDATA% is defined.
  • On other systems, it will be installed in a subdirectory of your home directory that is named Application Data\J-Bird. On Win 98 systems it is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\J-Bird.
• Unix/Linux - ~/.J-Bird.

It is possible to use an arbitrary directory to store observation data. J-Bird uses the directory specified by the Java system property jbird.data.home, if that property has been set. To set the property, you must edit the J-Bird launch scripts and set the property in commands in which Java is invoked. For example, such a command might begin with

	java -Djbird.data.home="/home/me/miscdata/J-BirdData" ...