On each launch, jDraft ensures that a small number of files that require less than 1 MB disk space, exist. If they do not exist, jDraft will silently create them.
This appendix details the files.
All the files are created inside a single directory called ’.jDraft’ in the user home directory. Note that on Unix-like operating system (which is practically everything else but Windows) this file is invisible, because the name starts with a dot.
The user home directory varies from operating system to operating system and on real Unix/Linux machines it can even vary between installations. The home directory has the same name as your login username.
Common places for the home directory (using user login name ’johndoe’ ) are:
MacOS /Users/johndoe
Linux /home/johndoe Windows C:\\Documents and Settings\\johndoe |
jDraft installs into directory:
/Users/johndoe
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the following files:
jDraft-app.png
jDraft-doc-dft.ico jDraft-doc-dft.png jDraft-doc-jdwg.ico jDraft-doc-jdwg.png jDraft.config jDraft.desktop jDraft.patterns jDraft.xml |
Note that not all of the above are installed on all operating systems and not all of them during the launch, some are created during file association registration.
In addition, these two directories are created:
/plugins
/templates |
Of most interest to the typical user are the following:
’jDraft.config’ contains the user settings / application preferences
’jDraft.patterns’ contains all the hatch/fill patterns.
’/plugins’ contains all plugin components
’/templates’ contains all the drawing template-drawings