codeium attempts to make the codeium folder in the root directory about codeium.vim

[drjmcauliffe]

I had something similar on Windows 10 with Neovim in Windows Terminal:

Error detected while processing function codeium#server#Start:
line   28:
E739: Cannot create directory Z:\/.codeium: no such file or directory
Press ENTER or type command to continue

I have no Z: drive on my machine... my investigation led me to codeium.vim/autoload/codeium/command.vim:

function! codeium#command#HomeDir() abort
  let data_dir = $XDG_DATA_HOME
  if empty(data_dir)
    let data_dir = $HOME . '/.codeium'
  else
    let data_dir = data_dir . '/.codeium'
  endif
  return data_dir
endfunction

I eventually got this to work by creating an XDG_DATA_HOME environment variable that pointed to
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local.

However, I then get 2 .codeium folders, one in the user folder:

and one in the AppData\Local folder:

as opposed to 1 on linux:

... and on Windows ever time I start Neovim, codeium updates:

In any case, it works now... but took a bit of time to get there.

[pqn]

@nicholasmoy we could make the database respect $XDG_DATA_HOME as well