use multiple file directory and be able to set them about aconfmgr HOT 8 CLOSED

What is preventing you from doing that?

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By that i meant having a set flag, by default aconfmgr will use the file/ folder
and i'm asking if there is an option to change that folder upon specific conditions ?

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Okay, so you would like to have a way to configure aconfmgr save to save some files to a different location.

There is currently no option to do that automatically.

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Yep pretty much rather
something like

$islaptop && SetAdditionalFilesSavePath path/to/files-laptop || SetAdditionalFilesSavePath path/to/files-desktop

but also have it look in the original files/ for files all computers have in common ^
Having it just something you call at the begining of the script ^
so it would first look in all the additional files-* directory and if a file isn't found there it will take the one from the default files/ directory if that make sense ^

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How would aconfmgr save decide which directory to put new files in?

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@CyberShadow I think using a default directory but having a flag such as -d would be the best of both world, then feel free to do it or not :)
maybe have an user editable script in .config/aconfmgr that define how the save function chose which directory to put file so you could do something like

SetDefaultDirectory or SetBaseDirectory directory (optionalpriority)
$islaptop && SetAditionalDirectory laptopdir/ (optionalpriority)
$îsdesktop && SetAditionalDirectory desktopdir/ (optional priority)

And have Base/default directory the highest priority by default but have something like
SetDefaultDirectoryPriority (priority)
and SetAditionalDirectory (priority)

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As far as I understand, you can achieve what you want without any changes in aconfmgr.

• There exists a CopyFileTo helper, which allows specifying different source and target paths. This allows copying different files depending on the current system.
• You could also define a custom helper which looks in multiple directories as you described. You could even redefine CopyFile to do that, so that the configuration generated by aconfmgr save does that by default.
• As for aconfmgr save, since it always puts new files in the files/ directory, you could write an aconfmgr wrapper script which symlinks config/files to e.g. files_$HOSTNAME before executing aconfmgr.

I think it is worthwhile to make it easier to manage different file versions for different systems, but I'm not sure that the above is necessarily the best way to approach this problem.

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This area looks like a good topic to develop as a set of third-party helpers; perhaps if an victorious solution with clear benefits emerges, it could be adopted.

If there is something missing in aconfmgr to allow such helpers to work (e.g. some hooks for saving), that can be filed as separate issues.

Let's continue here: https://github.com/CyberShadow/aconfmgr/wiki

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