The location of the ImgArchive runtime environment can be found two ways; explicitly, by an environment variable IMGARCHIVE_HOME, or implicitly, by using a known location used by the OS.

IMGARCHIVE_HOME specifies where the application home folder is located. The main configuration will be in a folder named “config” and the main configuration is called “config.dat”.

Standard OS platform installation locations

ImgArchive is normally installed in a default location defined for the OS platform it is running under. Each OS platform has a default location for third party applications. The standard locations or each of the three main platforms are described as follows:

Windows

Windows uses the environment variables; ProgramData and ProgramFiles. These locate the standard locations of the program data and the program files. ImgArchive extends these to make a ImgArchive specified folder path. For example the standard location under windows for ImgArchive to install is self is $(ProgramData)\IDK Software\ImgArchive for the data files needed to run ImgArchive and $(ProgramFiles)\IDK Software\ImgArchive\bin

_Note_ the windows environment variable ProgramData will normally be defined as:

ProgramData=C:\ProgramData

The program files may look like this:

ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files

ImgArchive will search these two paths looking for the ImgArchive installed files. SIA_HOME may contain the windows data file plus the ImgArchive specified path i.e.:

IMGARCHIVE_HOME =”c:\ProgramData\IDK Software\ImgArchive”

Or can be left blank.

The standard location for windows binaries is C:\Program Files

Apple Mac

Under the Apple Mac ImgArchive can be installed using Apple Install package ImgArchive.pic. This will install ImgArchive into the default locations.

Linux

Under the Apple Mac ImgArchive can be installed using Apple Install package sia.pic. This will install SIA into the default locations