# Custom Kolibri Content Directory

**URL:** <https://community.learningequality.org/t/custom-kolibri-content-directory/2546>\
**Category:** Studio\
**Tags:** windows10, content, content-distribution\
**Created:** [September 14, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://community.learningequality.org/t/custom-kolibri-content-directory/2546 "2022-09-14T10:57:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![beabzk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.learningequality.org/beabzk/32/1322_2.png) [@beabzk](https://community.learningequality.org/u/beabzk)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://community.learningequality.org/t/custom-kolibri-content-directory/2546/1 "2022-09-14T10:57:57Z")

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Operating System: Windows

Browser: Chrome

Description of problem:

I’m on a windows machine with two users. Let’s call them “user1” and “user2”.  
I installed Kolibri Studio using user1 profile. As such, all the content us located in `C:\Users\user1\.kolibri\`

Now, my problem is, I want user2 to access the same content with the same Super User account (different account is fine too). If I had an option to point Kolibri to a specific content directory, I’d have just told Kolibri Studio to fetch things from `C:\Users\user1\.kolibri\`. But unfortunately, I can’t.

I don’t want to download the same content on the same computer just because of different windows users.

My request is, if it exists, tell me how I can change the default content directory. If not, how can I go about solving this problem? Perhaps there is some way to create some kind of shortcut thingy and make Kolibri think the content is located in `C:\Users\user2\.kolibri\`?

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**Author:** ![RadinaMatic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.learningequality.org/radinamatic/32/701_2.png) [@RadinaMatic](https://community.learningequality.org/u/RadinaMatic)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.learningequality.org/t/custom-kolibri-content-directory/2546/2 "2022-09-21T15:55:33Z")

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Hello @beabzk, apologies for late reply!

Check this documentation chapter on how to [change the Kolibri `Home` folder](https://kolibri.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manage/command_line.html#change-the-location-of-all-kolibri-files). We believe the following scenario might be useful for you:

(You will have to have `user1` and `user2` created on Kolibri too)

1. Sign in as `user1` and stop Kolibri (right click the taskbar Kolibri icon and click on `Exit`).
2. Move the Kolibri home folder from `C:\Users\user1\.kolibri\` folder to the new location, for example `C:\Kolibri\.kolibri\`.
3. Share that folder with `user2` (right click and select `Properties > Sharing`).
4. Run the following in Command Prompt:  
`setx KOLIBRI_HOME "C:\Kolibri\.kolibri"`
5. Restart Kolibri and you should be able to open in the browser and sign in as `user1`.
6. Now sign in on Windows as `user2` and stop Kolibri.
7. Run the same command as above in Command Prompt:  
`setx KOLIBRI_HOME "C:\Kolibri\.kolibri"`
8. Restart Kolibri and you should be able to open the browser sign into Kolibri as `user2`.

This way both users will have the same shared folder where the channels are stored, and you will not have to download them separately for each user.

Let us know if this scenario is responding to your needs.

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**Author:** ![beabzk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/community.learningequality.org/beabzk/32/1322_2.png) [@beabzk](https://community.learningequality.org/u/beabzk)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.learningequality.org/t/custom-kolibri-content-directory/2546/3 "2022-09-22T15:14:08Z")

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Thank you for the reply. I wasn’t aware of the environmental variables.  
I decided to use `D:\KOLIBRI_DATA` directory as it was already shared between both accounts.  
Ran `setx KOLIBRI_HOME "D:\KOLIBRI_DATA"` in both accounts. Works like a charm 👍