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Kraellin
Kraellin

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Hi devs,

I've a request to allow us to move or re-direct a path to our "My..." settings, eg, "My Filters" and so on.

I've recently bought a new computer and it has four harddrives, C:, for my system stuff, D:, for program files, and E: (mirrored), for my data files. This makes it very easy to back up my "I don't want to lose these" files, like my filters and user made environments and so on. I can get normal filters from the library or use the back-up tool within FF, but I cant move the data files of the 'MY' category without losing the path. I'm not sure how difficult this would be from a programming standpoint, but it seems like it shldnt be that hard. Any chance we could get this? I only have so much room on each drive and I'd like to devote programs and data to their appropriate drives.

Craig
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!

Craig
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rachelduim
So Called Tortured Artist

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Filters: 188
** Deleted ** this is not possible using soft or hard links as I previously posted.
Math meets art meets psychedelia.
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GMM
Moderator
Filter Forge, Inc
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Please check out the Custom storages help section on adding your own filter location to Filter Forge.
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Lucato
FF addicted

Posts: 505
Filters: 39
Hi folks! I'm sorry, I know it is a very old thread, but today I had to install my FF12 in my new OS/HD, and I had a bunch of OLD filters already in the OLD library versions of FF version, and each filter was at the texture folder/subfolders, the same for Effects folders/and subfolder, and so on. By using the "Custom Storage help Section" suggestion above IMHO doesn't help at all, once all filters I had goes into the one folder, without beeing organized as it was in the original root/tree. I know it wold be moved one by one, but what a pain to move each one among thousand and worst than that is to know in what subfolder it was. So, I would agree with Craig that FF dev team would think a way where user would set the wished PATH for installing filters when installing FF and also be able to change after a installation, and FF would move them wherever it is set as a bunch of software does.

Anyway, I got to solve it in other way and for those that are looking for the same, one solution was to copy the original FF root in the HD for filters to my other wished HD, and added all my older filters in the same folders it was, and later I didn't create a soft or hard link, but used a junction link instead from my wished place to Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Filter Forge 12 also copy my favorites.xml to have the favorites I had before. All working good until now, but would be much easier to have the option into FF to set filters path. ;0)

Also FF dev team would put in front of each folder name the X amount of filters into the folder or on the footer such info. ;0)

All the best. Lucato.
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