[chimerax-users] Default movie image directory

[Daniel Asarnow]

Great, thanks. I found them in a subfolder therein.

-da

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 6:28 PM Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
>   ChimeraX is probably using the Python standard tempfile module to make
> the directory for the images it is saving.  So if you searched online for
> where python tempfile makes directories that could help find it.  A more
> direct method would be just record a brief movie and see where it puts it.
>  I see in the movie command documentation there is a movie status command,
> so try “movie record ; movie status ; movie reset” and see what it logs.  I
> got /var/folders/randomstuff....
>
>   Tom
>
> > On Nov 15, 2020, at 12:38 PM, Daniel Asarnow <asarnow at msg.ucsf.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hi,
> > What is the default image directory when rendering on a movie on OS X?
> ChimeraX crashed while I was rendering (due to running out of space) and it
> seems like the images are taking up a lot of space somewhere.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -da
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