Re: [Pan-users] Check/Download to my specific Downloads directory?

[Duncan]

David Shochat posted on Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:27:42 +0000 as excerpted:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 09:18:39 -0700, Ant wrote:
> 
>>> > My Debian's stable Pan v0.139 is not downloading my binary
>>> > attachments to the right default location. It is downloading to
>>> > ~/News.
>>> 
>>> Right mouse on the group and select "Edit Selected Group's
>>> Preferences".
>>> One of those is "Directory for saving attachments".
>> 
>> How about for all groups globally? I want to have one location for all
>> downloads.
> 
> I don't know how to change that. Of course you could always just change
> ~/News into a symbolic link pointing to your preferred location.

That's actually what I was about to suggest.  Pan's actually pretty good 
at following symlinks.  I know because I have several of them setup for 
various things.

(Among other reasons, I actually use the fact that setting PAN_HOME 
allows one to place the pan config and cache where one wishes, to setup 
multiple pan instances, each with a different config/cache.  However, for 
some files I want the same one used for all, and I setup symlinks in each 
config dir pointing at the same global file to make that happen. =:^)

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