Moving location of local EN db

[ericmac 1]

Hi,

I've tried searching to no avail and I just had a 20 minute chat session with a not very knowledgable CSR In fact, it might have been the worst chat experience of my life, the person had to idea what I was talking about and ended up just leaving the convo...

Anyhow, here is my set up.

I have a macbook pro with an SSD (from OWC who gets live chat right ) as the main drive in my HDD slot. I moved my factory hdd to the optical bay and dumped the CD drive.

I know i can do this on windows but is there anyway to:

1. move my local DB to my secondary HDD, if so how do I do that?

2. make sure it stays there, the chat rep was intimating that on sync the local DB would re-replicate to it's old location (on the SSD)

Basically, like on my PC, I want the app on the SSD and the database on the HDD but can seem to find it on Lion + how to move it.

Cheers!

Eric

[ericmac 1]

I ended up getting a reply from support that basically said no...you can do it on win but not mac..that kind of sucks but I hope they are planning on adding that functionality, if possible, in the future.

Hope this thread helps someone else!

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

i started a thread on this as well. i am pretty disappointed in this lack of functionality.

i think what i will have to do is turn on my windows computer every week in order to save stuff onto my external drive, and because i cannot even use the evernote app on my mac (it syncs all or nothing), i will probably just uninstall it and use the web version.

very, very frustrating for those of us with limited memory (mba 64gb). despite all of its bugginess, i actually prefer the ios app, because it doesn't download everything!

[heather 604]

I'm sorry you didn't have a great experience in chat. The chat technicians are not specialists - they're able to handle "basic plus" questions. (I trained them myself.)

They're also able to triage and suss out what the actual issue is if they don't know the answer themselves, and try to gather all the information one of the specialists needs so that they can close out a ticket (if it needed to be opened, as in your case, it did) as quickly as possible.

In this case, you're asking for something I like to call "an unsupported installation." The client doesn't have this available, and it can really cause some issues if you do it - but should you choose to, here's instructions how:

If you do happen to go this route, and you need to contact support in the future, please mention immediately that you're running an unsupported installation, and exactly what you've done - up front. Certain issues you may encounter will not be able to be handled by anyone less than a specialist, so it's good for us to know what we're dealing with from the beginning.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

thanks heather. i think i might give it a try. i wonder, though, if i move my data to an external device, will evernote have trouble working if the device is not connected? it would seem that if i create a note and try to sync without the library, then bad things might happen.

[BurgersNFries 2,407]

thanks heather. i think i might give it a try. i wonder, though, if i move my data to an external device, will evernote have trouble working if the device is not connected? it would seem that if i create a note and try to sync without the library, then bad things might happen.

I don't know about Macs, but I'd guess something like this is similar to PC. If so, then invoking EN when it doesn't have access to your database means it will create a new, empty one & will sync all your notes down from the EN servers. In fact, I believe this is one suggested way of building a new, local database, if yours gets corrupted or your hard drive crashes. It's essentially a "new" install.

[ericmac 1]

I'm sorry you didn't have a great experience in chat. The chat technicians are not specialists - they're able to handle "basic plus" questions. (I trained them myself.)

They're also able to triage and suss out what the actual issue is if they don't know the answer themselves, and try to gather all the information one of the specialists needs so that they can close out a ticket (if it needed to be opened, as in your case, it did) as quickly as possible.

In this case, you're asking for something I like to call "an unsupported installation." The client doesn't have this available, and it can really cause some issues if you do it - but should you choose to, here's instructions how:

http://discussion.ev...dpost__p__18729

If you do happen to go this route, and you need to contact support in the future, please mention immediately that you're running an unsupported installation, and exactly what you've done - up front. Certain issues you may encounter will not be able to be handled by anyone less than a specialist, so it's good for us to know what we're dealing with from the beginning.

understood but just saying that if they can't answer then just send me to support, don't keep me hanging or just leave the chat (that's just rude)...that said, i appreciate the chat feature, i'm sure it'll get better

regarding the mac database issue, is there some kind of hard core product reason you can't replicate the windows functionality on mac w/regards to moving the DB? seems the architecture of how the mac/unix file system works is much easier than windows for stuff like this....

does it have to be installed on drive that has the OS or can i uninstall + reinstall on the HDD itself (OS is on SSD)..this would be a good workaround

[TuftyMcTavish 2]

I too wish to move my Evernote database to another location. On Windows I keep my Evernote within a Truecrypt container. I wish to do the same on Mac.

I read the symbolic link suggestion and may well try that out, but I'm puzzled why this isn't supported. I want to add some additional security around my Evernote, I can do it on Windows, why not Mac?

[Greg Charles 1]

I just replaced my optical drive with a SSD on my MBP. I have the OS and applications folder on the SSD.

The User folder is on the HDD. You have to tell the OS that the User folder is on the HDD.

Open system preferences. Click Users & Groups. Click the lock to make changes and enter the admin password.

Right click the admin user and select advanced options. Then change the home directory to the user name folder on the HDD. Mine looks like this - /Volumes/HDD/Users/gregcharles

[chinarut 29]

 

thanks heather. i think i might give it a try. i wonder, though, if i move my data to an external device, will evernote have trouble working if the device is not connected? it would seem that if i create a note and try to sync without the library, then bad things might happen.

I don't know about Macs, but I'd guess something like this is similar to PC. If so, then invoking EN when it doesn't have access to your database means it will create a new, empty one & will sync all your notes down from the EN servers. In fact, I believe this is one suggested way of building a new, local database, if yours gets corrupted or your hard drive crashes. It's essentially a "new" install.

 

 

thought I'd add my 2 cents...  I have my data on a disk image (either different partition on same HD or external SD).   if i forget to mount it, Evernote asks me to log in.   if this happens, I quit the application, mount a disk image and start Evernote again and it opens fine.   (however I will say that Evernote does think it crashed and asks if you want to send a report.  not sure why but then again, this is an unsupported configuration so I just click "Cancel" - this is better than Evernote attempting to reinitialize my database so I have no complaints)