Ok. So as I thought I would like to create different databases for different projects, it seems that the best strategy is to have new (complete) basex folders for each project. BaseX is so light that this does not seem an issue, but still I was not sure this was the way to go.

Danke!
Giuseppe


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On Jul 23, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

I see now that I can change the path in the GUI under preferences, but once I change it I cannot access databases in the "data" folder anymore.

Right. In a single BaseX instance, you can only work with a single
database directory.

It seems that in db:open I can specify to open a particular file of a database, but I cannot specify the path to a database in a folder different from the default one: is that right? Thanks!

Right.