RE: [Pan-users] Re: Pan + XP : .pan2 location and Save dialog questions

[Travis]

address@hidden wrote:
> "Stephen Fekete" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on
> Sat, 09 Jun
> 2007 11:48:54 +0100:
>
>> Firstly only recently tried Pan and am very impressed. Thanks to all
>> involved.
>
> =8^)
>
>> 2 questions:
>>
>> 1. .pan 2 folder is located at C:\Documents and Settings\User\.pan2
>> while I have Pan on a different partition (D). How do I change the
>> location of the .pan2 folder so it is also on the D partition.
>
> No problem!  Set the environmental variable PAN_HOME to the directory
> you wish to keep your config and data in, and pan will look there for
> it. =8^)  (If you need to know how to set an environmental variable,
> ask Travis or one of the others, as I jumped off of MS when it became
> apparent where they were headed with what they called XP,
> upgrading from
> W98 to Linux instead of what I term eXPrivacy.  I'm glad they
> pushed me,
> as it was a move I've not regretted in the least! =8^)

Don't ask me.  I don't even know what an "environmental variable" is.

I just put Pan in "Program Files" in Vista and did the same on my old XP 
machine.

>> 2. I've set the download folder and I want simply to double click an
>> item and have it download to this folder not have the 'Pan:Save
>> Articles' dialog pop up.
>
> This feature was available in old-pan (0.14.x), but isn't in
> the rewrite
> (0.90 and above).  Various users have requested it, and I
> think there's
> an open bug on it.
>
> Meanwhile, I use a workaround.  Instead of saving one thing
> at a time, I
> select a whole bunch of stuff, and /then/ hit save.  That
> way, I only get
> one dialog for the bunch, instead of one for each item.  That actually
> works as good for me as the old way anyway, since I group
> stuff together
> and save it to a subdir of the working dir, then grab another group
> selection and save it to another subdir, keeping series of files
> (artists, albums, picture series, whatever) sorted
> separately, each into
> its own subdir.  Keeps the download dir from getting too much
> stuff all
> dumped together that way, while still avoiding the popup for
> each item
> problem. =8^)

I do the same.
-- 

Travis in Shoreline Washington