Can't edit mayaBatch.param file (adding Maya 2025 to plugins)

[Surpreeze]

Hello. I found this thread about getting Maya 2025 to work on deadline:

Maya 2025 Installation

I can’t seem to get Deadline working with Maya 2025. It doesn’t appear in the Configure Plugins list, if I try to install it manually I get the Deadline plugin/submitter to appear in Maya 2025 but then when the job attempts to process I get the following error… How can I fix this? (Layman’s terms if possible, as I’m no computer engineer!). Error: Deadline was unable to find the plugin configuration option ‘RenderExecutable2025_0’ for the selected version of Maya 2025_0.

The problem is that I can’t edit the file in the repo due to permission even though I am the administrator. This might be a windows question more than a deadline one, but I hope someone can help anyways…

How do I gain permission to changing the file?

Thank you

[anthonygelatka]

try copying the folder into the ‘custom’ folder and editing it there. Anything in here overrides the standard one.

for example copy
C:\DeadlineRepository10\plugins\MayaBatch
to
C:\DeadlineRepository10\custom\plugins\MayaBatch

if you can’t edit this folder you’ve got other issues. You may want to copy the file locally, edit it locally and save, then copy the file back to the original location.