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          <th>Bug ID</th>

          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 

          bz_status_NEW "

   title="NEW - setting "FIJI_PREFS_DIR" without effect"

   href="http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=858">858</a>

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          <th>Summary</th>

          <td>setting "FIJI_PREFS_DIR" without effect

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          <th>Product</th>

          <td>Fiji

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          <th>Version</th>

          <td>unspecified

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          <th>Hardware</th>

          <td>PC

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          <th>OS</th>

          <td>Windows

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          <th>Status</th>

          <td>NEW

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          <th>Severity</th>

          <td>enhancement

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          <th>Priority</th>

          <td>P5

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          <th>Component</th>

          <td>ImageJ1

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          <th>Assignee</th>

          <td>imagej-bugs@imagej.net

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          <th>Reporter</th>

          <td>Goosmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de

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        <pre>Despite having set  "FIJI_PREFS_DIR" to an exsisting and writeable path

(C:\Fiji_Pref), Fiji uses an invalid path obtained by

system.get.property(user.home) See <a class="bz_bug_link 

          bz_status_RESOLVED  bz_closed"

   title="RESOLVED FIXED - error saving/loading preferences"

   href="show_bug.cgi?id=187">bug 187</a>. Trying to save preferences results

in an error message: "error saving preferences

\\fileserver\profiles$\Desktop\.imagej\IJ_Prefs.txt (Zugriff verweigert)"

I checked whether a beanshell skript can retreive the set value of 

"FIJI_PREFS_DIR" and what FIJI uses as PrefsDir instead. See content of

beanshell window below:

Starting BeanShell...

All ImageJ and java.lang and TrakEM2 classes imported.

Ready -- have fun.

<span class="quote">>>>

>>> e = System.getenv("IJ_PREFS_DIR")</span >

C:\Fiji_Pref

<span class="quote">>>> print(ij.Prefs.getPrefsDir())</span >

\\fileserver\profiles$\Desktop\.imagej

<span class="quote">>>> ij.Prefs.savePreferences()</span >

The last skript command leads to said error message.</pre>

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