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19 Apr 2024 16:12:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray Debian Jessie JPEG error  
From: LanuHum
Date: 26 Feb 2014 14:15:00
Message: <web.530e3c8bee4049657a3e03fe0@news.povray.org>
"BobMckenzie123" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

>
> povray: cannot open the user configuration file
> /home/*******/.povray/3.7/povray.conf: No such file or directory
>
> I'm not sure if the missing conf file has anything to do with the jpeg issue.
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks

In linux:
open console or konsole or terminal
mkdir .povray
cd .povray
mkdir 3.7
cd 3.7
cp /etc/povray/3.7/povray.conf povray.conf
cp /etc/povray/3.7/povray.ini povray.ini

Open in text editor ~/.povray/3.7/povray.conf

edit:
[Permitted Paths]
;read = "/this/directory/contains space caracters"
read* = %INSTALLDIR%/include
read* = %INSTALLDIR%/scenes
read* = %INSTALLDIR%/../../etc
read+write* = %HOME%
read+write* = /tmp
read+write  = .


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