How do I point the location of Android Studio settings to a different user location?

Question

I have the following problem. I have two Android studios in my system. One is the stable version, and the other is the Canary version. When I updated them, unfortunately, I got confused on the "Full Installation" screen. He asked me to import the settings from a custom location, and I indicated the wrong location.

Initially, the Canary version pointed to C: \ Users \ myUserName.AndroidStudioPreview1.4 , and the stable version pointed to C: \ Users \ myUserName.AndroidStudio1.4 , but after the update both point to C: \ Users \ myUserName.AndroidStudio1.4 .

Because of this, so many problems arise. I want my version of Canary to point to C: \ Users \ myUserName.AndroidStudioPreview1.4 . How to do it?

Answer 1

I have found a solution.

• Go to the folder in which you installed the Canary version of Android Studio (most likely in Program Files).
• Go to the bin folder
• Open studio.exe.vmoptions and studio64.exe.vmoptions in a text editor.
• In this case, change the following line -Didea.paths.selector = AndroidStudio1.4 to -Didea.paths.selector = AndroidStudioPreview1.4 . Or to any other settings folder you want.

Works great.