When I installed Flame trial version, I simply clicked all defaults so I could start testing.
Now it obviously went to my main SSD (inside my Mac Mini), but is it possible to relocate database into my external SSD connected with TB4?
This entire database thing is bit odd for me to understand as coming from comp file based approach as I simply name a comp file and choose folder to be located.
Is it good or bad idea to locate database externally or is it just fine? I have NAS also, but for that purpose it is way too slow as it isn’t 10GB connection yet.
I tried to understand it from documentations, but it is overwhelming
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
EDIT:
At this point all things can be deleted as I am only testing here and there. So loosing current database isn’t problem.
It is not the database you need to worry about, that is small. It is the flame Catalog and cache media. Yes those can be anywhere you want to put them during Project creation.
In 2026, the Media Storage tab doesn’t exist as the monolithic framestore system is gone and is now the ‘Media Cache’ path which is set per-project. If you only have 2026 installed on a system, the Setup app won’t have the Media Storage tab, but even if it’s there it only applies to Flame versions 2025 and below.
The database (which currently keeps track of frames in the cache any given project is using) is shared across all projects and is in /var/opt/Autodesk/pgsql
Thanks, I managed to find correct place and I was able to set external SSD as location for project. Need to read more about how this all is handled by Flame and understand what goes where.
It would be cool if Flame expert could open up this whole Flame way of handling basic stuffs as many Nuke and Fusion artists know only save file here and that’s basically it
