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Forum for English speaking Miranda NG users => Support/Help => Topic started by: pstein on 08 05 2026, 06:55:51

Title: Where are all profile-independent settings stored? "mirandaboot.ini" still used?
Post by: pstein on 08 05 2026, 06:55:51

Where are all profile-independent settings stored?

Is the file "mirandaboot.ini" still used?

I prefer to store these settings NOT in Registry and not user %APPDATA% folder but in a local, portable file/folder in Mirandas installation directory.
How can I achieve this?

Title: Re: Where are all profile-independent settings stored? "mirandaboot.ini" still used?
Post by: dartraiden on 08 05 2026, 11:09:53

All settings are stored either in the database (.dat inside the profile), or in the profile (Tox.json, Telegram's .binlog, etc.), or in the Miranda folder (mirandaboot.ini)

Setting ProfileDir in mirandaboot.ini to a blank value will force Miranda to look for the profiles in /Miranda_root/Profiles
https://wiki.miranda-ng.org/index.php?title=Mirandaboot.ini#ProfileDir

So you can just set ProfileDir=
Create the Profiles directory near Miranda32/64.exe
Move your profile from %AppData%\Miranda NG to Profiles

The result will be something like /Miranda_root/Profiles/myprofile/myprofile.dat