Microstation Connect - Rename personal.upf and personal.ucf

Hi,

I just switched from V8i to Connect and would have a few questions, also among to a comment in the following text (hope I can link this here?):
https://envisioncad.com/microstation-connect-ucf-and-pcf-files/

- In the Connect Edition, the UPF and the UCF are now bound to the Microstation user and are called personal.upf and personal.ucf by default.
I read in the linked text above, that there is still a configuration variable for the UPF file, but it wouldn't work and you shouldn't use it either ..... !?

Is that correct?

I would like, as in the past, to rename all of my personalized configuration files with my initials.
E.g .: XY_UserPref.UPF and XY_UserConf.UCF
I also found the variable for the UPF and was able to test it successfully. It seems to work for the UPF.

- What about user-related UCF?
How would I have to proceed to rename it? Is that even possible?

In msconfig.cfg (which we shouldn't touch) I found:

# ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
# The names of the user preference (.upf) and user configuration (.ucf) files,
# which are stored in the $ (_ USTN_HOMEPREFS) directory, are determined by _USTN_USERNAME.
# ------------------------------------------------- --------------------
_USTN_USERNAME: Personal
_USTN_PREFNAMEBASE: $ (_ USTN_HOMEPREFS) $ (_ USTN_USERNAME)
# ------------------------------------------------- --------------------

That means that the UPF and UCF always get this fixed name "Personal" via this variable ....
But I still haven´t understood, how Microstation controll which UCF file has to be loaded, in order to refer to a renamed file.

Please, can someone explain this?

I would be happy if you could explain what the statement in the text linked above is based on and whether my plan for renaming this files is possible.

Thanks a lot
Regards
Raphael

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