What determines the location of the .grails directory?

Question

I want to change the location of the .grails directory. I have read about using working directories, but this is not what I want. For some reason my .grails directory gets put in the "Administrator" user folder instead of in my user folder. How do I correct this?

Answer 1

The grailsWorkDir property controls the location. You can change the value in the BuildConfig.groovy file.

See the Grails documentation section 5.5 Customising the build:

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There is an issue with Java and the user.home property in Windows. See this SO question for more details:

Java user.home is being set to %userprofile% and not being resolved