Deadline 3.1 overriding Slave Application Data location

Deadline
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Hi,

Is it possible to override the Application Data location slaves use under Deadline 3.1?

We have changed the %APPDATA% environment variable in the PreRenderTasks of our plugin, but Deadline still puts the Slave data in:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Frantic Films\Deadline\slave

We would prefer to avoid the spaces in the paths getting sent to our renderers. (We have some bat files that are choking.)

Thanks,
Paul

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Hey Paul,

There is currently no way to customize the Application Data folder that Deadline uses. We are using .Net calls to get the Local AppData folder (and Common AppData folder), so you could possibly modify the registry (wouldn’t really recommend this, as it might break other stuff…) to change the beginning of the folder structure. This would still leave you with a space in the path though, since the “Frantic Films\Deadline” part is hard-coded and appended to the AppData folders.

Is there any way you could quote the paths, or escape the spaces (with a backslash), in the batch files you mentioned? If so, that should avoid any messiness caused by spaces in paths…

Cheers,

  • Jon