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Please give the user the option to change the location of folders that Davinci Resolve needs, in particular the Fusion folder.

Upon every start DaVinci Resolve creates a folder named "Fusion" at
/Users/<username>/Documents/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Fusion/
which contains two subfolders, "Default AutoSaves" and "Queue".
(I'm on macOS)

Would you please consider making this customizable?

At the moment, Resolve creates files in three or four different locations, which is really annoying for any of us who try to keep their computer organized. (The Documents folder seems to be a particularly bad choice for AutoSaves and Queue.)

I second the request!

Me too - I use the full version - and organised users don't want these folders in their documents folder.
Why not put them next to "CacheClip" folder where we can choose the location of?

Since we are asking, I would actually prefer full control over the exact location. In my case CacheClip would to one disk while backups would go on another. I guess it'd be better to offer full customisation in order to accomodate every user's needs

febros wrote:Since we are asking, I would actually prefer full control over the exact location. In my case CacheClip would to one disk while backups would go on another. I guess it'd be better to offer full customisation in order to accomodate every user's needs

You already have control over those two paths...

Thanks Waltervolpatto for the reminder. I know, I was simply following on Woodkit's suggestion to place the CacheClip folder next to the Fusion one. But it's always better to repeat it, I had actually run into situations where I couldn't even save a project because the default location of CacheDisk ate up my whole disk while caching previews in the background.

We got more control in 17.

Jim Simon wrote:We got more control in 17.

I am not seeing this "control." Resolve still creates the Blackmagic Design\Resolve\Fusion folder in the User Documents folder - at least on Windows 10.

Where are the options to relocate these?

Also, does Fusion Studio have a similar option? It has this same problem. It creates a Blackmagic Design\Fusion folder in the User Documents folder, as well.

I would love for this feature request to be looked into as well!

Second this. I use Documents folder for documents only.

Same wish for feature «change path to Blackmagic folders». At least move it out of the Document-Root folder.

There's a place where those paths are listed but at this moment there's no way to edit those paths.
Menu bar -> Fusion -> Fusion settings -> Path map -> System -> AllDocs: & UserDocs:

Please just enable letting people change those paths.

And I'd strongly request that we can choose where recorded audio files (such as VO) are stored when recording directly into Fairlight.

This is another deal-breaker for Fairlight being a useable DAW for me. Recorded audio files simply must be able to be stored in media sub folders of my choosing for each project (usually with the video file folders).

AND the .wav files should be generated using track and take names: "Rick VO Track1 - 01" -02,-03, etc. or similar. Like a real DAW.

A folder full of: "FL_capture_2020-01-02_2330_T0002_C00002" from every project I've ever done all mixed together is pretty useless.

Is this still the case? At least I could not find a way to adjust the folder yet.

A Mac app should never store anything under Documents unless the users asks it to. Period.
If an app does this - it should be considered a bug.

The default location should be in "~/Library/Application Support" but if you could please (with sugar on top) could give us a way to just move the folder - that would good enough, too. Be it just through a "defaults write" configuration.

I'm also unappy about this. Would be great if all the relevant stuff was under "/home/username/Davinci Resolve" per default and of course with the option to change in settings.

Since Adobe also completely spams Documents I'll probably go ahead and hide this folder from my Favorites and create a completely new "Paperwork" folder. That makes it very unlikely that any software will go there by default. Not pretty though ..

I agree this should be standard. Also, it was a really bad decision to put it in the documents folder. Documents folders are generally synced to cloud services, so this is doubly bad. For the time being, I have just hidden the folder so it isn't an eyesore.

Would really (REALLY) prefer that Fusion doesn't put a bunch of folders in ~/Documents!

Especially for things like Autosaves and Queues.

That's not what ~/Documents is intended for.

Use ~/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Davinci Resolve/Fusion or
/Library/Preferences/Blackmagic Design/Davinci Resolve/Fusion or
/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Davinci Resolve/Fusion as a last resort (really don't want that kind of thing in the main Library folder either)

even better, let the user decide. You already let us choose where to put our databases and other files.

Of the 25-30 different audio apps and plugin makers I use, there are literally 3 that put stuff in ~/Documents, all the others have understood why it's not a good idea (and the others appear to be open to change).

It's 2024! Let's let users have clean and streamlined folder structures, especially since many of these are being mirrored to the cloud.

Thor

adrianbienias wrote:There's a place where those paths are listed but at this moment there's no way to edit those paths.
Menu bar -> Fusion -> Fusion settings -> Path map -> System -> AllDocs: & UserDocs:

Please just enable letting people change those paths.

You can change them by overriding them with a User Path Map. Click New and create a Path Map called UserDocs pointing to a path of your choice. However, even if this overrides the path that's used by the user, it still re-creates the original path. I assume because it's referenced somewhere before the overrides. If they could fix that the issue would probably be solved.

+1 for a cleaner folder structure

+1 for a cleaner folder structure, and not taking away users' power over their own organization.

+1 I find auto-created Resolve folders clogging my hard drives all over the place. I want 1 folder for everything Resolve.