Folder created in home directory (clashes with documented location)

[quintrino]

• I am on the latest ActivityWatch version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

AW Version: v0.13.1 (rust) (according to settings in dashboard page)

brew info activitywatch@beta
==> activitywatch@beta ✔ (ActivityWatch): 0.14.0b4
Time tracker
https://activitywatch.net/
Installed (on request)

• OS name and version:
  OS version: macOS 26.6.2
  Architecture: arm64
• ActivityWatch version:
  Version: v0.13.1 (rust)

Describe the bug

I have just installed ActivityWatch via homebrew
brew install activitywatch@beta
and it appears to have created a folder in my home directory.
~/ActivityWatchSync

It contains a folder
d825xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxx
which contains
test.db

To Reproduce

install via homebrew, have folder appear in Mac home directory.

Expected behavior

It should use the directories listed at
https://docs.activitywatch.net/en/latest/directories.html

[github-actions]

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[akirad3d4]

Hello. This is expected behavior if you have the aw-sync module running, which uses the ~/ActivityWatchSync path by default. This is not a bug unless you haven't started aw-sync.

[quintrino]

So is there a way to configure where that directory goes?

I have so far only activated activitywatch@beta and the Activitywatch firefox extension. I'm unsure if those run aw-sync under the hood.

[akirad3d4]

I think it's worth checking the aw-tauri configuration, since its repository description states that it contains:

{ name = "aw-sync", args = "daemon" }

About changing sync directory (from aw-sync repository):

The default sync directory is ~/ActivityWatchSync, but you can change it using the --sync-dir option or by setting the AW_SYNC_DIR environment variable.