Move the Visual Studio 2005 folder to another location?

Move the Visual Studio 2005 folder to another location?

• David B.

  Thank you both for helping me and thanks for bearing with me ;)

  The problem is not a path problem in the options dialog.

  Here is what I do, step by step:

  In VSE's options dialog, I update all path to the new folder .

  Then I move \old folder\Visual Studio 2005\ to \new folder\Visual Studio 2005\

  Then I start the file \new folder\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\myprogram\myprogram.sln , this launches Visual Studio and loads my program.

  At the program startup, in the "error list" window, I get:

  Error 1 Unable to open module file 'c:\old folder\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\myprogram.Designer.vb': The system cannot find the file specified.

  Error 2 Unable to open module file 'c:\old folder\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\myprogram.vb': The system cannot find the file specified.

  Error 3 'Form1' is not a member of 'myprogram'.

  On the right side, in the "solution explorer" window, I click on the top item "myprogram" and in the properties window, the path is correct, but greyed out.

  Still in the "solution explorer" window, I click on "myprogram.vb" and in the properties window, the path is NOT correct, it points to the old folder, but I can't correct it as it is greyed out.
  

  I beleive correcting this path would solve everything but I can't figure where to do that.

  
  

• Darren Tao

  On the Options page (Tools...Options):

  Under: Environment / Import and Export settings, there's a 'settngs' folder - that s probably the one thats' causing an error on startup. It recreates the settings file in that location. If you move it, it'll complain the next time you start VB.

  Under: Projects and Solutions / General, there are some paths: are you saying these are grayed out Those should be able to be set.

  
  
  

• maitung

  Ohhhhhhhhhh

  You can move the contents of that entire directory to another Directory and then

  Make sure the "Show all Options box" is checked

  Select

  Tools | Options |Projects and Solutions | General options box

  Insert the new directory into:

  the Projects textbox.

  
  
  

• keithster

  Hello, Thanks for replying me.
  When you tell about a "project", do you mean the "\my documents\Visual Studio 2005\" folder
  I don't only want to move my program's folder, I want to move the whole "\my documents\Visual Studio 2005\" folder. My program is inside this folder.
  The last time I tried to move it, there were some "missing links", and I didn't know how to update them, there paths were greyed out in the VS interface.
  Help would be welcomed.
  gren
  
  

• Busy

  I was tired with this problem and started recoding from scratch inside the new folder. However, MSVB2005EE re-creates the "Visual Studio 2005" folder inside "my documents" at each startup. This folder only contains Backup Files. I didn't find the option to move the backups' path, anyone can help

  Thanks

  
  

• ChupaChupa

  Your project is in a directory....

  Simply copy that directory to the location of your choice.

  Open the project with File. All files in a project are relatively addressed as opposed to absolutley addressed.

  Good Luck.

  
  
  
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