From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6680 invoked by alias); 2 Aug 2012 17:31:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 6671 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Aug 2012 17:31:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f171.google.com) (209.85.220.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:31:03 +0000 Received: by vcdd16 with SMTP id d16so8907867vcd.2 for ; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:31:02 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.209.80 with SMTP id gf16mr20457744vcb.58.1343928662756; Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:31:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.29.234 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 10:31:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: HOME directory has somehow been overridden From: Earnie Boyd To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-08/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Soumya Roy wrote: > Well my life went fine until later on I fired up cygwin and realized > that my intial directory has now been changed from > "c:/cygwin/home/username" to "c:/Documents and Settings/username"... Look for a HOME environment variable set in the Windows environment. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple