[DOCS-745] Bad data catalog for Windows Created: 13/Nov/12  Updated: 03/Nov/17  Resolved: 12/Mar/13

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: drivers
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: auto Assignee: Ed Costello
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: collector-298ba4e7
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified
Environment:

Windows 7

Location: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Referrer: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart
Screen Resolution: 1680 x 1050


Participants:
Days since reply: 10 years, 49 weeks, 1 day ago

 Description   

The default (and suggested) data catalog on Windows 7 should absolutely not be directly under C:\ . This is catalog pollution. It should of course be under C:\ProgramData\MongoDB.

Reporter: Per Lindbeg



 Comments   
Comment by Ed Costello [ 12/Mar/13 ]

I'm closing this for now, we do already write that you can put the data directory anywhere and with the MSI I assume choosing the data directory will be an option.

Comment by Sridhar Nanjundeswaran [ 11/Mar/13 ]

The msi will be installing on c:\program files if you install the 64 bit msi on 64 bit or 32 bit on 32bit. If you install the 32 bit msi on a 64 bit machine it will install into c:\program files (86). As pointed out earlier in any production system your mongodb data directory is prob a separately mounted volume.

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