I've recently installed arcgis 10.2 on C: of my machine, I did this while my external HDD was plugged into E:, and the installer put python onto the E: Why it would do this I have no idea. Now I can't do anything in ArcPy or toolbox unless I have the HDD plugged in. Am I able to move this python27 installation and then tell arcgis where I have moved it to, or do I need to re-install (without my HDD plugged in)?
[GIS] Change python installation directory arcgis
arcgis-10.2arcgis-desktopinstallationpython-2.7
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ArcGIS 10.1 installed ArcTutor and Python27 on my G: drive. I moved the folders to C:\ArcGIS\ArcTutor and C:\Python27. Doing this broke ArcMap; it attempts to start, but just closes without errors. Instead of uninstalling/reinstalling, I started editing the registry, but there were way too many keys to update manually (regedit does not have search and replace!). I didn't back up the registry first, which i should have done, but luckily the following worked... I found a free registry editor (regedt33.exe) that has search and replace from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/regedt33/files/latest/download I used this to change anything with G:\ArcTutor and anything with G:\ArcGIS to the C: drive. There were hundreds, and thousands of changes. After the changes, I launched ArcMap and it seems to be working ok.