[GIS] How to make Portable QGIS 3

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Is it possible to make QGIS 3 portable with changed location for Qgis setup parameters folder.

For QGIS 2 it looked like this in qgis.bat file:

qgis –optionspath "X:\qgis" –configpath "X:\qgisini"

For QGIS 3 it doesn't work. Setup parameters are default placed in:

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\QGIS

Best Answer

Those parameters have been removed in favour of the new --profiles-path option. You can set this to the root folder that will contain the profiles for the sessions

--profiles-path C:\temp\myqgisprofiles\

On Windows make a shortcut to the qgis-bin.exe and attach the parameter to the 'target' field.

This will make

C:\temp\myqgisprofiles\profiles\default

When run the first time.

Profiles are a new feature in QGIS 3 to keep settings and plugins, etc isolated from each other.

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