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Changing the quicksave scratchdisk location?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I noticed the scratchdisk taking up a pile of room on my SSD drive with these new quicksaves. When I located the quicksave folder in the C:\Users\Public\Documents\ZBrushData folder there was a file named ZBrushScratchDiskPath.TXT in there. I assumed if I renamed the location that Zbrush would create the needed folders in this new location on another drive.

Instead it said Zbrush couldn’t find the files and would change back to the default location. Now it seems that even if I copy all the files over to the new location and restart Zbrush it keeps looking to the default location and not what is in the ZBrushScratchDiskPath.TXT file

any clues to help get it looking to a new location after this?

thanks, Rod.

#2

The location can’t be changed, but there are settings you can adjust to change the overall usage. See page 43 of the ZBrush 4R5 What’s New PDF found in your Documentation folder.

The scratch disk is where ZBrush’s virtual memory is located. The instructions for changing that are in the ZBrush 4R4 PDF.

#3

thanks for clearing that up…won’t look any further. Although, I could set up a Junction folder that remaps to another drive and I’m sure that would work (just in case others are looking for this option).

#4

Hi,

I have a dedicated 500 gb hd “F” set aside for scratch. I set up folders on the “F” drive to match the path in the .txt file then changed the path (hd letter F instead of C) in the txt file to point to the scratch hd and it works fine. I can run ZB and watch the drive changing as the scratch files are being produced.

Like this:
F:\Users\Public\Documents/ZBrushData/

Hope this is useful.

#5

Thanks Willt, I was running low on my C drive, this is a great work-around, cheers:+1:

#6

Glad to be of help.