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 ________________________________ From: Bassam Kurdali <[email protected]> To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
