Guides Keeping files for VAM outside VAM's Install

[Dragontales]

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Keeping files for VAM outside VAM's Install - Tunnel assets and media into VAM from other locations and drives

Did you know you can use a windows feature to store and access files that are kept on a different drive? It's called a Windows Junction Point. Want to store larger files, music, video, whatever on a different drive but still be able to access it from within VAM. This is how you do it. Vam think the folders are local and the files aren't actually in your install.

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[BStarG2]

Interesting... this could maybe help improving responsiveness and/or start-up times (for VAM itself, and then for Scenes), by keeping content files outside of the main install folder, no? Maybe?

 

[Jocks3D]

I have several installs of VaM on my computer, each one is for a different type of scene ( by subject matter, author or year downloaded). Do you think I could use this technique to store all of my dependencies in one folder and have them available in each on my VaM installs? That would save a ton of space rather than downloading the same dependencies in every VaM install add-on folder. If this trick works for that it would be a huge space saver and also make it easier to manage dependencies.

 

[Dragontales]

I have several installs of VaM on my computer, each one is for a different type of scene ( by subject matter, author or year downloaded). Do you think I could use this technique to store all of my dependencies in one folder and have them available in each on my VaM installs? That would save a ton of space rather than downloading the same dependencies in every VaM install add-on folder. If this trick works for that it would be a huge space saver and also make it easier to manage dependencies.

I'll be honest, I'm not sure. If more than one pointer can be made to the same folder, then it should be possible.