<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I opened up a MantisBT issue #147 for this. Below is what it says.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The default path for snapshots/grabshots is /tmp but this can be changed
in Settings->Preferences, Interface tab, Snapshot path (which is
also the path used for grabshots). However, changing this for each
project can be somewhat cumbersome and easily forgotten.<br>
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On the other hand, <b>saving them to the current project directory by default would be convenient and desirable.</b><br>
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A partial attempt was made to do this (April 2018 based on a user request at the time) but was backed out. Here is why:<br>
1) What is a project directory??? This is the fundamental question that
first needs to be addressed. Not everyone even has a project directory
defined but just load files willy-nilly from all different directories.
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2) When a question came up from gg on which way to go, I was unable to
competently answer that so that is why the effort was stopped.<br>
3) What do you do in this case? What should the program do in another situation?<br>
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You can still see remnants of the previous effort when you bring up "New
project" and see the fields "Create project folder in" and "Project
Name".<br>
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If some basic algorithmic rules can be established ahead of time, gg may
be able to implement this. But he needs a set of definitions to cover
all of the possibilities. Ideas? Suggestions? for everything is needed
and much appreciated so GG can avoid "guessing" what to do in each
case.<br>
</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:14 PM <<a href="mailto:ben@innovationplex.com">ben@innovationplex.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id="gmail-m_5673699486770355730geary-body" dir="auto"><div>As of right now, the default path for snapshots is /tmp (which means that they first have to be moved manually and then reimported into the project). <br></div></div><a href="https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Another question is what is an "old project"? Is that the directory where the XML is loaded from? Thanks for more input.</div></div></div>