Application data directory changes will not stick

Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit
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I have an environment with 4 Citrix servers hosting 16.3 x64 and the roaming profiles are flakey at normally inconvenient times. Toad responds with anything from a complete reset to mixed bag of lost stuff (connections, options, menu tailoring). In the past I flipped the application data directory to a personal user network drive. Now changes will not save in the app. I manually edited the roaming SettingsLocations.ini to use "AppData=H:\Toad for Oracle\16.3" and after a restart with wiped settings followed by a restored user settings it appears to stick on this box. I'm not sure if/when my profile will propagate to the other servers. Is the ability to change this in the app a bug? Another annoying random side issue is the loss of menu configuration when I don't lose other stuff. Restores save me without much pain, but any insight on why or how to prevent this loss would be nice.

Thanks,
Chuck

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Hi Chuck,

Whatever you set here should make it it into SettingsLocations.ini. If it does not, yeah I'd say that's a bug.

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I don't know a lot about the inner workings of Citrix. I just know that it tends to wipe out the AppData\Roaming folder when you log off. Since SettingsLocations.ini is under there, that gets wiped too, right?

I think others have solved this by coming up with batch files to save/restore this folder on logoff/login, but I don't know the details of that either.

-John