REW file locations

[Jose Hidalgo]

Hi everybody.

I'm a Win 11 user, and I've installed REW via WinGetUI, so the install was fully automated.
I'm surprised to see that REW has created several files and directories, directly under my user directory:

• C:\Users\Jose\REW\ (with a temp sub-directory and several .log and .txt files)
• C:\Users\Jose\install4joutput.log

This clutters my user folder and is slightly annoying (imagine if every installed app did the same...).

Would there be a way to move all those items to a more suitable directory?

• C:\Users\Jose\Documents
• C:\Users\Jose\AppData\Local
• C:\Users\Jose\AppData\Roaming
• ...

I haven't found any REW preference for doing so.
Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[John Mulcahy]

No, the locations can't be changed. It is helpful for the REW folder to be accessible for error reporting and to access the temporary copies of measurements made if they were inadvertently not saved or there was a crash. Putting the folder in AppData would complicate that since that folder is hidden.

 

[Jose Hidalgo]

Thanks John, understood.
Maybe that could be customizable in a future version. Putting those files directly in C:\Users\%username% doesn't look like good practice IMHO.
For the record, when I said "would there be a way to move", I wasn't talking about me. I was just asking if REW had some way of moving those files. Which you have now answered.
Thanks again!