Moving the .Rapidminer folder

d_frank

Hi,

 

The .Rapidminer folder is by default located in my user directory. Since I have limited space within that directory, I would like to move it to another drive. Can you tell me, how I can move this folder? Do I have to edit some kind of *.ini?

 

Thank you and best regards

marcin_blachnik

There is one more option,

By default RM creates the .RapidMiner folder in the user folder, which is obtained from the operating system variable.

You can change it by adding a java switch which tells JVM where the user folder is and manually redirect .RapidMiner to different location

To be more precise add the option

-Duser.home="d:\myNewUserFolder"

 

to your script file which starts RapidMiner

If you use windows open the RapidMiner Studio.bat and locate the lines

---------------------------------

:launch
echo Launching RapidMiner Studio GUI now...
"%JAVA%" %JVM_OPTIONS% [-Duser.home="...."] -cp .........
goto startEnd

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in the backets I've shown where to put the new options

 

If the folder name contains space character remeber to use " ".

 

Best

MartinLiebig

Hi Frank,

 

i would recommend to move the repository to another place by simply using a different one. That should be most of the space needed.

 

Next idea would be to use a link for $USER/.RapidMiner to move it away.

 

Only then i would think about really changing it in RapidMiner. You would need to change the .sh/.bat file for this.

 

~Martin

jacobcybulski

@marcin_blachnik, @mschmitz I am trying to follow Marcin's advice, however, I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I am finding that RapidMiner ignores the -Duser.home setting and still is looking for .RapidMiner folder in the home directory.

In the RapidMiner-Studio.sh shell, I have defined a new variable JACOBS_ROOT pointing to a hidden folder, which includes a copy of .RapidMiner created by the run of RM9 (after its full clean update from version 8.2):

## Jacobs' new home location
JACOBS_ROOT=~/.RapidMiner-9

I have modified update_root, just in case.

update_root=${JACOBS_ROOT}/.RapidMiner/update

And then changed the launching sequence to refer to -Duser.home:

    # Compile launch parmateres
    rmClasspath="${RAPIDMINER_HOME}"/lib/*:"${RAPIDMINER_HOME}"/lib/jdbc/*
    JVM_OPTIONS=$("$JAVA" "-Djava.awt.headless=true" "-Duser.home=${JACOBS_ROOT}" -cp "${rmClasspath}" com.rapidminer.launcher.JVMOptionBuilder "$@)

    # Launch Studio
    LAUNCH=0
    if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
      eval \"$JAVA\" $JVM_OPTIONS -cp \"${rmClasspath}\" com.rapidminer.launcher.GUILauncher \"$@\"
    else
      eval \"$JAVA\" $JVM_OPTIONS -cp \"${rmClasspath}\" com.rapidminer.launcher.GUILauncher
    fi

And yet, when RM starts it is still looking at the ~/.RapidMiner rather than ${JACOBS_ROOT}/.RapidMiner.

This is what the RM initialization looks like:

jacob@goblin-galore:rapidminer-studio-9$ ./RapidMiner-Studio-9.sh
RAPIDMINER_HOME is not set. Trying the directory '/home/jacob/Apps/rapidminer-studio-9'...
Sep 08, 2018 5:46:30 PM com.rapidminer.tools.FileSystemService checkAndCreateFolder
WARNING: Unable to create user home rapidminer directory /home/jacob/.RapidMiner
Sep 08, 2018 5:46:31 PM com.rapidminer.gui.RapidMinerGUI run
INFO: Launching RapidMiner 9.0.002, platform ANY
Sep 08, 2018 5:46:31 PM com.rapidminer.tools.I18N <clinit>
INFO: Set locale to en.
Sep 08, 2018 5:46:31 PM com.rapidminer.RapidMiner performFirstInitialization
INFO: Performing upgrade  to version 9.0.002

Here are the details of Java installed on my Ubuntu:

jacob@goblin-galore:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
There are 2 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java          1081      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode
* 2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java          1081      manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:
jacob@goblin-galore:~$ apt policy oracle-java8-installer
oracle-java8-installer:
  Installed: 8u181-1~webupd8~1
  Candidate: 8u181-1~webupd8~1
  Version table:
 *** 8u181-1~webupd8~1 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Interestingly, I have found an Oracle JRE time stamp in the ${JACOBS_ROOT} folder, so it seem Java goes there, but RapidMiner decides this is not the place.

 

Any ideas? As my university labs use RM 8.2, I'd like to be able to run both versions 8.2 and 9 on my Ubuntu 16.04.

 

Jacob