Deadline custom event plugin caching

Deadline
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I’m trying to edit the ShotgunUtils.py event plugin library, and no matter what I do, I can’t get the nodes to pick up any changes.
I’ve restarted the worker, synchronized, resubmitted jobs, edited the event config via the ui to trigger a reload… nothing has worked. I’m at a loss!
I can get the Shotgun.py to update, but not the ShotgunUtils.py file.

Any idea what I need to do? What’s the secret?!

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Hello!

I believe the events cache is not updating and the ShotgunUtils.py is not getting updated in the cache. You would need to delete the cache folder depending on the operating system:

Windows: C:\Users[username the application is running on]\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\cache
Linux: ~/Thinkbox/Deadline[VERSION]/cache
OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Thinkbox/Deadline[VERSION]/cache

Can you try deleting it and check if the updated ShotgunUtils.py gets in effect.

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I had the same issue on Linux. Can’t remember if I ever solved it.
By the way event plugins run in their own “Event sandbox” process, and I’m not sure how it is controlled by the launcher service.

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It turns out the syncing was working, I just didn’t notice the error message had changed!
Thanks for your help :slight_smile: