#1144·Ditto

Choosing settings location from command-line

Author: marcsternCreated Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 4, 2026

For various reasons, it may be useful to launch Ditto with a settings file located in another folder than the program one. One example is a secure environment (portable version or not), where you don't have write access to the program folder.

A very easy and generic solution for that problem would be to allow to run something like '...\ditto.exe /settings C:...\Ditto.ini'. This would work with both the portable and non-portable version and allow full flexibility without introducing any side-effect. This would also be a way to easily synchronise settings between different machines (more easily than extracting/importing registry hives)

Would it be possible to add such an option? Thanks