ForScore fixed data file location has always been in a sub folder called DATA within the ForScore program directory.

It is now possible to specify a different data location.  You might want to keep your data files on a thumb drive, for example, or on a share on a network server.  Or perhaps you are setting up a major match and are keeping separate data files for it in a different folder.

The alternate data location is configured on the Data tab in Program Preferences.  The Data tab will only be visible if you have checked Use advanced menus.

Note that after browsing to the folder you wish to use, you MUST click Set to save the settings.  Clicking OK will NOT save the location.

 

To run ForScore using the data location you've specified, you'll need to start the program with the /data switch.  This shot shows a shortcut modified to include the switch:

 

I have needed more data file locations on occasion.  There is a utility program - datapathset.exe - that you can use for that.  You can then use additional switches such as ForScore /data3