Notes installation directories for Windows

Recommended and default IBM® Notes® installation and upgrade directories on a Microsoft™ Windows™ system are as follows.

Note: If Notes is currently installed, the default path is the current Notes installation path. When you install Notes single user on a system on which Notes 6.5 or 7.x is already installed, the traditional Notes portion of the product is upgraded and installed to the same directory in which the existing Notes install binaries currently reside, for example C:\IBM\Notes. The Notes data directory is assumed to be the directory where the existing Notes install data files exist, for example C:\IBM\Notes\data. Additional IBM Lotus® Expeditor framework files are installed to a \framework subdirectory, for example C:\IBM\Notes\framework.

Table 1. Default and Suggested Windows Single-user Directories for Notes Install
Directory	Description
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes	Notes product and binary files installation directory
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\data	Notes single-user data files installation directory
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\data\workspace	Notes single-user workspace directory
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\framework	Recommended Notes Java™ code installation directory

Table 2. Default and Suggested Windows XP Multi-user Directories for Notes Install
Directory	Description
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes	Notes multi-user default binary files installation directory
C:\Documents and Settings\`user`\Local Settings\Application Data\IBM\Notes\data	Notes data files installation directory for each user
C:\Documents and Settings\`user`\Local Settings\Application Data\IBM\Notes\Data\workspace	Notes workspace directory for each user
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\framework	Notes Java code installation directory
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\Notes\Data	Shared data directory

Table 3. Default and Suggested Windows Vista Multi-user Directories for Notes install
Directory	Description
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes	Notes multi-user default binary files installation directory
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\data	Notes multi-user shared resources and templates installation directory
C:\Users\`user name`\AppData\Local\IBM\Notes\data	Notes multi-user default data installation directory
C:\Users\`user name`\AppData\Local\IBM\Notes\data\workspace	Notes multi-user workspace directory for each user
C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\framework	Notes Java code installation directory

Note: On a Windows system in which an existing Notes installation is detected (6.5.x, 7x, or 8.x), the existing installation directories will be reused.

Table 4. Default and Suggested 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 Directories for Notes Install
Header	Header
C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes	Default program directory
C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Notes\data	Default data directory for single user install
C:\Users\`username`\App Data\Local\IBM\Notes\data	Default data directory for multi-user install

Note: As a 32-bt application, Notes must be installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\... or another directory name such as C:\IBM\Notes; it cannot be installed to C:\Program Files. This is a requirement of the 64-bit Windows 7 and 8 operating systems. Instead of trying to install to C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes and C:\Program Files\IBM\Notes\data, install to C:\IBM\Notes and C:\IBM\Notes\data (not placing it in any particular Program directory). All files will install correctly to this Notes folder.