POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Default folders for pov? : Re: Default folders for pov? Server Time
10 Aug 2024 13:27:38 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Default folders for pov?  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 11 Dec 1999 22:21:32
Message: <385314bc@news.povray.org>
omniVERSE <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> Think he meant for opening/saving of new pov script files not image
output.
> From what I can tell the answer is no.  I tried to see if I could tell
> POV-Ray in the Windows registry to use a folder I wanted to use and found
> nothing to cause it to see another place.  Actually I usually get the
> C:\Windows folder, just sometimes the Documents, I want it to be in the
> C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.1\scenes\ folder.
> What's happening is the currently accessible folder Windows sees is
getting
> pointed to apparently, just took another look at where it wanted to go and
> was C:\Temp this time.  I had recently used that folder for moving some
> files around outside for Zip compressing and image opening.

I don't use the Windows version myself, but it sounds like you're getting
Explorer's current directory as the open/save folder.  In this case, you
should be able to set a fixed folder in the properties of the shortcut to
POV-Ray (the Start In option)...maybe?


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