User data folder

The user data folder stores data such as your program settings, user themes, autosaves, and the log file.

The location of the user data folder is in a standard system location for non-portable installations:

Windows

C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Gridmonger

macOS

/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Gridmonger

For portable installations, it is inside the application folder where the Gridmonger executable resides.

The user data folder contains a number of subfolders; these are created by the program at startup if they don’t exist:

Autosaves

If autosaves are enabled and the current map hasn’t been manually saved yet, the autosave file Untitled 1.gmm will go into this folder. If Untitled 1.gmm already exists, the name Untitled 2.gmm will be chosen, and so on. In the rare event of a program crash, unsaved maps are automatically saved here too as <Map Name> Crash Autosave.gmm.

Config

Location of the gridmonger.cfg configuration file that contains the application’s settings.

Logs

The logs from the last run are written to the file gridmonger.log in this folder. Log files from the last three runs are also preserved as gridmonger.log.bak1, gridmonger.log.bak2 and gridmonger.log.bak3.

Manual

The HTML user manual you’re reading now.

User Themes

User themes are saved into this folder. This is where you should put themes shared by other users.

User Themes/Images

Images used by the user themes go here.

Tip

If the application folder contains a subfolder named Config, Gridmonger will attempt to start in portable mode. Technically, you can convert a standard installation into a portable one by moving the contents of your user data folder into Config in the Gridmonger folder.

You can also do the reverse and convert a portable installation into a standard one, but on Windows you’re better off just using the standard installer. That will also set up default file associations for Gridmonger map files (.gmm) and provides a standard uninstaller script.