From 690316e5415d5ce289c50543994353c015f1851e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nmemmert <67961292+nmemmert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:36:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Compose: fixed host data path and root user so data persists
 across container recreation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 README.md    | 2 +-
 compose.yaml | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3be0b2d..1f911cc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Add a repository secret `REGISTRY_TOKEN` (a Gitea access token with `write:packa
 ## Run with plain Docker
 ```bash
 mkdir -p data && cp /path/to/Bills_Tracker.xlsx data/
-AppID=money PUID=1000 PGID=1000 TZ=America/New_York docker compose up -d   # then edit the bind path in compose.yaml or symlink
+TZ=America/New_York docker compose up -d   # data is stored in /DATA/AppData/money/data on the host
 ```
 
 ## Starting fresh
diff --git a/compose.yaml b/compose.yaml
index 26f313d..ead5b3e 100644
--- a/compose.yaml
+++ b/compose.yaml
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ services:
     image: git.necloud.us/nate/money:latest
     container_name: money
     restart: unless-stopped
-    user: $PUID:$PGID
+    user: "0:0"
     ports:
       - target: 8765
         published: "8765"
         protocol: tcp
     volumes:
       - type: bind
-        source: /DATA/AppData/$AppID/data
+        source: /DATA/AppData/money/data
         target: /data
     environment:
       - DATA_DIR=/data