I can't see MSYS home directory under Windows 7's file explorer

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00:00 I Can'T See Msys Home Directory Under Windows 7'S File Explorer
00:56 Accepted Answer Score 22
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

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$ pwd -W
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Steven

ANSWER 2

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Sometimes there is a case that MinGW/MSYS does create home folder in ~/msys/1.0/home/user (user is my user name)

The following is what I discovered.

MinGW/MSYS usually creates a home folder under C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/user if you installed them as usual (accepting the defaults) and you executed msys.bat successfully. However, it does not create it where you expect if you happened to have an environment variable called HOME.

Optionally, first check your home folder by $pwd -W ($ is a command prompt.)
Remove the environment variable called HOME. (It does not mess up Windows.")
Reboot
Execute msys.bat again.
Optionally, now check where your home folder by $pwd -W
Note: Don't need to reinstall MinGW/MSYS.

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