1. General or Journal Preferences
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## 1. General or Journal Preferences

Figure 9.1. General Preference Tab

In this dialog you see a few things crammed together.

Up top you see what is called a "filechooserbutton." It has the text "journal2" in it. This is the location for your journal. Unless you've moved your journal you really don't need to ever change this (and changing it will not move your journal).

If you'd like to move your journal, I recommend opening your favorite shell (graphical or textual) and copying your journal somewhere. Then going into this preference and changing the location.

Next you can see two options: Encryption, and No Encryption. They're fairly self explanatory, and the default is no encryption. Basically: If you want to be prompted for a password to use the journal than you want encryption, if not you want no encryption and anyone who can use your computer can read/edit your journal.

Next is a text box. You can simply edit this and your changes will be saved (assuming you have encryption on).

Then you'll see two text entries, with text about passwords. Enter a new password here twice and click "Commit Password Change Now" to change your password. When you do this, every entry in your journal is opened, decrypted, encrypted, and saved. So, this can take a while: About 10 seconds on an Athlon 1800+ with around 300 entries. But a dialog will popup and only close when it finishes: If you don't even notice it don't worry, it just did it that fast.

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