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Android Studio pointing at wrong user directory

On my machine I have two user directories, one local on C:\Users\Username\, and another on a network path \\networkName\Home\Username.
Although Android studio was stored in C:\Program Files, and the SDK folder was set to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Android\sdk, Android Studio itself insists on using the network home, saving all local application data there, and as there's no space on this directory, causing Android Studio to throw constant No enough space on the disk exceptions, or file not found.
Is there an environment variable, or registry key I need to change to get it to point at the right folder?

To change the Environment variable follow the steps by #tacticurv:
1.) Open Windows explorer and right click on computer and select properties. In the control panel home that opened select advanced system settings in the left pane. Then select environment variables under advanced tab in the system properties window.
2.) Add a new user variable with name 'ANDROID_AVD_HOME' and value as path to /.android/avd/
3.) Similarly set GRADLE environment variables. This link might help - http://www.gradle.org/installation
4.) Start Android Studio - it will ask if you want to import config file. Give location to /.AndroidStudio/config

Where does html5 libgdx app save Preferences files?

As I read here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Preferences
Preferences files will be saved to ~/.prefs/ (I'm on linux).
When I run desktop app, it works fine, and preferences file is saved to the right place. But with html5, it doesn't save that file! I'm sure it was saved somewhere, because the game still can read it (it contains scores).
My code is really simple, just:
Preferences score = Gdx.app.getPreferences("Highscore");
score.putInteger("score", _points);
score.flush();
I built the game by running
./gradlew html:dist
and run it on localhost created by python
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
then go to http://localhost:8000 on Firefox.
Anyone could help? Thanks for reading, have a nice day.

I found my .prefs in my libgdx html game by running the game in Chrome, right clicking and choosing Inspect Element, clicking on the Resources tab, expanding the Local Storage tab, and examining the entry https://myAppName. This is where the .prefs are kept...

I can not see with db Questoid SQLite Browser

i am using eclipse for android programing and now i need to view SQLite database in the emulator.
I followed these step:
Download .jar file
Place the plugin .jar file in your Eclipse plugins folder (e.g. /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins)
Restart Eclipse
Start up an Android Emulator w/ Debugging in Eclipse
Switch to the DDMS Perspective in Eclipse
Go to the 'File Explorer' tab to locate your device's database file
Navigate to: e.g. 'data -> data -> com.myproject -> databases -> myproject
Now when i try to Open the database file in Questoid i can't select it!
(see screen shot)
same advice?

From your screen shot there, the database does not have a "." (read: period) in the file name & extension area.
Improper: mydatabaseDB
Proper: mydatabase.db
Once the database shows the proper extension (and is a proper SQLite database), then Questoid will (I use the plugin all the time in Eclipse (Juno version)) then show the "active" button (not disabled like in your screen shot). When looking for latest database entries (what was just added into the database), I then click once again on the toolbar icon as you show there, in the upper right of the screen. I then go to the Browse Data tab for that view, then choose the table from the database I want to view the fields from.
I hope this helps.
Happy coding...

I had the same problem with "sqlitemanager": only .db-Database files are accepted.
This is the solution:
Download this Questoid SqLiteBrowser: http://www.java2s.com/Code/JarDownload/com.questoid/com.questoid.sqlitebrowser_1.2.0.jar.zip
Unzip and put it into eclipse/dropins (not Plugins)

Try following these steps:
1) Close Eclipe
2) Remove the .jar from /usr/lib/eclipse/plugins.
3) Place the .jar in /eclipse/dropins and let Eclipse try to install it for you.
4) Start Eclipse.

you can always use sqlitebrowser externally . You will have to pull your databse everytime from ddms though .

The file has to end with .db extension, so the answer is to name your database as this sqlite browser expects it to be.
Another way of fixing it is to find a year old version that does not have this constraint.

Please use the extension ".db" in lowercase, please don't try with these extensions .SLQLITE, .BD, .DB, .SQL, or similar or without extensions.
Regards,

How to change the path of the cache directory in java ,or how to customize it for any user?

I want to change the path of : C:\Documents and Settings\abc\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache to any specified Location
How to customize deployment.properties file but the changes should be generic to any user,i dont need to to it for every user.
Is there any way to do it??

The default java cache directory can be changed from within your windows interface by:
control panel>Java > General > Setting > Location
That's the general location of java cached files.
Note: if the Change button is disabled, go to your JRE>bin directory and change the javacpl.exe to run in compatibility mode (Windows XP (Service Pack 3))
Now if you are using java WebStart as your deployment tool, please refer to this link
and change the deployment.user.cachedir property in deployment.properties.
There is a deployment.properties file for every java installation. In my java configuration the location of this file is C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment.
Refer also to how to change Java cache folder automatically for WebStart programs

How to auto-launch a jar file?

I have a game on a USB drive called MyGame.jar.
It is an executable jar file. I want to be able to put it on cd's and USB drives.
I want the game to start up automatically when the cd or USB is put into the computer, how can i do this?
The game will only be ran on Windows based computers(Windows Xp & Windows 7).

Creating an autorun.inf (Autorun.inf entries) will work quite nicely for a CD.
But for USB drives, as of Windows 7, it can't be done. Microsoft disabled this "feature" because of all the malware that auto-installed that way...
In your case, the contents of autorun.inf should be something like this:
[autorun]
shellexecute=MyGame.jar
icon=MyIcon.ico
label=MyGameName
shellexecute opens MyGame.jar automatically using the jre (if installed). The other lines are optional but good practice.

Here's how to automatically launch an application using autoplay:
Make a text file and save it as autorun.inf. Save it in the base path of the CD.
The contents of autorun.inf should look something like this:
RUN=setup.exe
Icon=icon.ico
The icon field is optional.
Note that this only works if the user has autoplay enabled. If the user disabled it, it won't work.