7.2 On another PC, another letter, another folder

Changing letter, folder or PC

On another PC the USB stick might become E: instead of D:. You do not have to do anything: at start the kit compares the current folder with the one from last time and, if it changed, shows “The kit has been moved: it was in …, it is now in …” and updates the paths.

• The programs' environment (PATH and variables) is rebuilt at every start from the current folder.
• The paths written in the agents' and the editor's files are rewritten with the new path.
• The web servers' configurations are regenerated at every start and use relative paths.
• In the kit's .gitconfig, safe.directory (the folders Git trusts) is rewritten at every start with the kit's current folder, for example D:/Atollo/*. The kit removes only the value it wrote before (it remembers it in data\app\safe-directory.txt): the folders you added yourself stay.
• The certificates' PEM file (Settings › Network) and a terminal's folder, when they are inside the kit, are saved relative to the kit: they follow the move.
• Sign-ins, settings, projects and databases are in the folder: they travel with it.

To bring only your work into a kit that already exists, without the programs, use “Copy of the kit” in Settings › The kit: export to a zip here, import there (Updates and backups (7.3)).

The same kit on Windows, macOS and Linux

The programs are different for each system, and the kit keeps them in separate folders (data\apps\win32-x64, data\apps\darwin-arm64, data\apps\linux-x64…). Everything else is shared: projects, settings, sign-ins, agent instructions, databases.

1. Format the USB stick as exFAT, which all three systems can read and write.
2. Put the executable of each system in the kit folder (Atollo.exe, Atollo.app, the AppImage file).
3. On each system, open Atollo: the first time it installs the components chosen for that system. Alternatively, on the Tools page choose that system in “Platform” and prepare the programs in advance from another PC.