Changing the Location of Tabby Configuration Files

Tabby stores its settings in configuration files that reside in the Windows user profile. This article explains how to move the configuration files to any directory of your choice.

The Tabby Config File(s)

Tabby stores its configuration in the file %APPDATA%\tabby\config.yaml. It also keeps a backup in the file config.yaml.backup in the same directory.

Changing the Location of the Tabby Config Files

Tabby doesn’t provide an option to store its configuration file(s) in a different location. We can easily work around that limitation, though, by moving the files to their desired location and creating symbolic links that point from the old to the new location.

Move Procedure

1. Quit Tabby.
2. Move (don’t copy) the existing settings files config.yaml and config.yaml.backup from your user profile to their new location.
3. Create symbolic links from the original config file location to the new location with mklink:

# New location. Modify TARGETPATH as needed.
set TARGETPATH=d:\Data\Tabby

# Create the links
mklink %AppData%\tabby\config.yaml "%TARGETPATH%\config.yaml"
mklink %AppData%\tabby\config.yaml.backup "%TARGETPATH%\config.yaml.backup"

References

1. I used the same technique with Windows Terminal.
2. Tabby Wiki: Config file location.