Possibly related, two issues. "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'envs')"

PlatformIO IDE
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Things were working on an older laptop. But I just had to upgrade. I think the Windows install (I hate Windows) played a practical joke on me by giving me the user name “BANANAStein”. So my user dir is c:\Users\BANAN, which is A) stupid and B) on a small partition. So I installed everything on D: drive and created a “Personal” Folder there. (And yes, I have absolutely no idea where it came up with that and didn’t notice it until it was mostly done with the install)

So, how do I point everything in PIO to “d:\Personal…”?

And when I created a new project, it gives the error “Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘envs’)”

Which I suspect is related to the same issue, but can’t be sure because I don’t know what the heck that error actually means.
I know that there is an #include file that is not being found. I fixed the path, pointed it in the right direction. But for some reason, the files in “lost” include file (extra #includes) are also not found.

So it seems to keep trying to point to c:\users\BANN no matter what. Not the “d:\personal” I’d like to use.

If I compile an old project, it seems to work OK. It’s just a new project, using a different platform, not Arduino (8266 RTOS).

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You can set the environment variable PLATFORMIO_CORE_DIR and let it point to D:\Personal\.platformio

  • Create the environment variable and set it to D:\Personal\.platformio
  • Start VS Code
  • Open a PlatformIO project
  • Wait until all installation tasks have been finished

Check if this still happens after changing the platformio directory.

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Thanks! That would have to be in every project .ini file? Or is there a main file I can put that in?

I’ll have to try it and see, the code I was working with is no longer around. It was just a sample project, and I can’t seem to recreate or find that sample project.

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No, just set a Windows environment variable “PLATFORMIO_CORE_DIR”.
This will apply to all your projects.

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Got, thanks. I figured there must be something like that, but I was looking in PIO, not external variables.

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Do you know, can I do this with .vscode also? That also takes up much room.

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I think the portable mode can solve this issue.