The Archi.ini file

The Archi.ini file

This is an explanation of the entries in the Archi.ini file that is used by Archi for various settings.

The Archi.ini file is located alongside the Archi.exe file on Windows, the Archi executable on Linux, and in Archi.app/Contents/Eclipse/ on Mac.

Settings

These are some of the settings that might be of interest as of Archi version 5.3:

-cleanConfig

This will clean the configuration area after Archi exits to avoid stale cached data when Archi plug-ins are installed. See this issue for why we do this. In short, you can remove this if you are sure that you will not change the location of Archi's installation or its dropins folder.

--launcher.defaultAction

--launcher.defaultAction
openFile

This allows Archi to open *.archimate files from the desktop.

-eclipse.keyring

-eclipse.keyring
@user.home/...

The location of the secure keyring used to store secure credentials.

-vm

-vm
<path>

Location of the bundled Java Runtime.

-Declipse.p2.data.area

[email protected]/p2

Location of Eclipse's internal data store. It's safer not to change this.

-Ddata.location

[email protected]/Documents/Archi

Location of user data such as scripts and model repositories.

-Dosgi.instance.area

[email protected]/...

The location of the .metadata folder that stores Archi's preferences.

-Dosgi.configuration.area

[email protected]/...

The location of the .config folder that stores various Eclipse caches.

-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory

-Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=%user.home%/...

The location of the folder where Archi's plug-ins are installed.