Specifying the
Configuration Folder
This topic explains how to specify the folder SecureCRT will use to store and load the initialization files containing the settings for global and session A session is a set of options that are assigned to a connection to a remote machine. These settings and options are saved under a session name and allow the user to have different preferences for different hosts. options.
If this is the first time you have installed SecureCRT
If this is the first installation of SecureCRT on your system, the Browse for Folder dialog will appear when SecureCRT is run for the first time after installation. In the Browse for Folder dialog, select the folder in which you would like to store the settings for global and session options and then click on the OK button.
If you are installing SecureCRT over a previous version:
If you have an earlier version of SecureCRT installed on your system as well as a 5.0 version installed, the Migrate SecureCRT Settings dialog will appear the first time you run the 5.0 version. In this dialog, you are asked if you want to migrate the options settings from your earlier version of SecureCRT. If you would like to migrate the configuration settings from the prior version to the newer version of SecureCRT, you must also specify the configuration folder at this time:
1. Specify
the configuration folder by entering the full folder path or by clicking
on the Browse button 
and selecting
the path from the Browse for Folder dialog.
2. Once you have specified the configuration folder (if different than the default configuration folder), click on the Yes button. Your configuration settings will be migrated and stored in the configuration folder that you specified in the first step above.
Note: If you do not want to migrate your configuration settings from the older installation of SecureCRT, click on the No button in the Migrate SecureCRT Settings dialog and the Browse for Folder dialog will appear, in which you will be able to specify the SecureCRT configuration folder.
Changing the Configuration Folder
To change the configuration folder, complete the following steps:
1. Start SecureCRT.
2. Open the Options menu and click on Global Options... to open the Global Options dialog.
3. Click on the General category.
4. In the Configuration folder entry box, enter the path to the desired configuration folder.
5. Click on the OK button to exit the Global Options dialog and restart SecureCRT to instate the change of folders.
Note: Changes to the configuration folder will not take effect until SecureCRT is restarted.
Specifying a Configuration Folder from the Command Line
The command-line option /F folder
allows you to specify an alternate configuration folder when you start
SecureCRT from the command line. When SecureCRT
is started with the /F option, the specified folder will
override the default setting for the current instance of SecureCRT.
Each instance of SecureCRT can use a different configuration
folder.
To specify a configuration folder from the command line, enter the following command:
SecureCRT
/F folder
Note: If the folder pathname contains spaces, you must enclose the argument inside quotation marks.