# Configuration file locations

**URL:** https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227
**Category:** Computational Model Builder (CMB)
**Created:** [February 28, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227 "2019-02-28T23:00:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/tj.corona/32/35_2.png) [@tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/tj.corona)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227/1 "2019-02-28T23:00:29Z")

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The ModelBuilder (and ParaView) user settings directories are determined by the following logic (from ParaView’s [`vtkInitializationHelper`](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/SMApplication/vtkInitializationHelper.cxx#L381)`):

**Windows** :  
`${APPDATA}/<APPLICATION_NAME>/<ORGANIZATION_NAME>/*`

\ ***NIX** :

1. `${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/<ORGANIZATION_NAME>/*`
2. `${HOME}/.config/<ORGANIZATION_NAME>/*`

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### Author: ![tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/tj.corona/32/35_2.png) [@tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/tj.corona)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2019, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227/2 "2019-02-28T23:05:06Z")

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For ModelBuilder, `ORGANIZATION_NAME` is currently `Kitware Inc.` and `APPLICATION_NAME` is `modelbuilder`.

For ParaView, `ORGANIZATION_NAME` and `APPLICATION_NAME` are `ParaView`.

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### Author: ![chart3388](https://discourse.kitware.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@chart3388](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/chart3388)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227/3 "2019-03-01T02:59:43Z")

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This just recently changed as previously (as in the 6.0.0 release) it was .config/modelbuilder. Kitware Inc. is a problematic naming standard on Linux due to the fact that space has to be escaped or double quoated.

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### Author: ![tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/tj.corona/32/35_2.png) [@tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/tj.corona)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227/4 "2019-03-01T19:18:47Z")

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@chart3388 Ah, makes sense. I have just changed ModelBuilder’s `ORGANIZATION_NAME` back to `modelbuilder`.

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### Author: ![tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/user_avatar/discourse.kitware.com/tj.corona/32/35_2.png) [@tj.corona](https://discourse.kitware.com/u/tj.corona)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2019, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.kitware.com/t/configuration-file-locations/227/5 "2019-03-06T17:02:11Z")

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@johnt