Windows Installation error non-standard location

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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If the 2.0 beta is installed in only-this-user mode in a different location to the suggested AppData\Local, when the boards package is installed it defaults to the AppData\Local path - with no option to change it or detect the actual installed location.

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The boards packages are never intended to be installed to the same path as the Arduino IDE installation folder.

If you do for some reason want to install them to a different location than under C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Arduino15, you can do that by following these instructions:

  1. Close all Arduino IDE 2.x windows.
  2. Open C:\Users\<user name>\.arduinoIDE\arduino-cli.yaml in a text editor
  3. Change the directories.data configuration key value to point to the path you want to use.
  4. Save the file.

Arduino CLI is used by Arduino IDE 2.x for all non-GUI related tasks. You can find more information about the Arduino CLI configuration file (arduino-cli.yaml) here:
https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/configuration/

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