[Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

[Roger Wickes]

I've commented on the discussion page. Thank you for
taking this on. Bassam, my only concern about your sugg
is garbage collection. having all in temp makes for easy
freeing of disk space. Scattering in various folders will
hide a bunch of disk space under rocks.

The way I do it now is to have a blender/work folder and then 
a folder for each project. when the project is done, I move the
whole folder to my archive drive. So, maybe there are some
project best-practices that we need to recommend along with
the technical solution.

 --Roger




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From: Bassam Kurdali <bkurdali at freefactory.org>
To: bf-blender developers <bf-committers at blender.org>
Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 8:48:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Installation/file paths

My only suggestion is that quit.blend and files currently saved in /tmp
should just be saved in the same folder as the blend file.
99% of the time you have to copy them there from commandline/external
file manager because saving to /tmp (or elsewhere) just breaks all
external references. (I guess there is a slight problem if the user
already has a file called quit.blend, but it can be solved I think by
picking in that case a different name like quit.blend1 or always using a
slightly different extension ( like quit.quitblend)
No big deal though, at least things don't get worse :)
cheers
Bassam