diff --git a/Manifest.toml b/Manifest.toml
index 428f68b966565fc38b080c46d83ce1e0f8a95168..bb8d29cfb5377348f7faac2e100429363f3d380f 100644
--- a/Manifest.toml
+++ b/Manifest.toml
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ version = "2.8.1"
 
 [[deps.Persefone]]
 deps = ["ArgParse", "CSV", "CairoMakie", "DataFrames", "DataFramesMeta", "Dates", "Distributed", "Documenter", "FileIO", "GeoArrays", "Logging", "LoggingExtras", "Pkg", "Random", "Serialization", "StableRNGs", "StatsBase", "TOML", "Test", "TiffImages", "Unitful"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "426db9701e0362d499c6d29aa02f8ce5a5807dc7"
+git-tree-sha1 = "3ff76c13d401170fe49e6b8a3e2ff6d055250c72"
 repo-rev = "master"
 repo-url = "https://git.idiv.de/persefone/persefone-model.git"
 uuid = "039acd1d-2a07-4b33-b082-83a1ff0fd136"
diff --git a/data/crops/almass/almass_crop_growth_curves.csv b/data/crops/almass/crop_growth_curves.csv
similarity index 100%
rename from data/crops/almass/almass_crop_growth_curves.csv
rename to data/crops/almass/crop_growth_curves.csv
diff --git a/guiparams.toml b/guiparams.toml
index 4eb653bdaca602504a1755a17d02259ee57203a5..25af5f54f1bce79037b719acd2f38fcc3a80a453 100644
--- a/guiparams.toml
+++ b/guiparams.toml
@@ -40,5 +40,4 @@ indoutfreq = "daily" # output frequency individual-level data, daily/monthly/yea
 	
 [crop]
 cropmodel = "almass" # crop growth model to use, "almass" or "aquacrop"
-cropfile = "data/crops/almass/crop_data_general.csv" # file with general crop parameters
-growthfile = "data/crops/almass/almass_crop_growth_curves.csv" # file with crop growth param
+cropdirectory = "data/crops/almass" # the directory storing all data files for the selected crop model
diff --git a/src/variables.jl b/src/variables.jl
index 6c2005771776ee1e35bc7dec06de95d3fb6cade5..45a2f1ecd1ddffe37c873fbe5b6b4192c537a6f0 100644
--- a/src/variables.jl
+++ b/src/variables.jl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ global timer = nothing
 global mapimage = nothing
 global plotimage = nothing
 
-const configfile = Observable("guiparams.toml")
+const configfile = Observable(joinpath(pkgdir(PersefoneDesktop), "guiparams.toml"))
 const launching = Observable(false)
 const running = Observable(false)
 const ticks = Observable(0)