Project deletion

[paul_round]

Is it safe to manually delete projects from the /opt/Autodesk/projects folder?
I have 63G of stuff in there which does not show when launching Flame, (all versions selected).
Neither do they show in the project.db.

[La_Flame]

Hi Paul,

Are these projects from a old version of Flame that was uninstalled and projects archived?

Before you start deleting things in the file system, check with Autodesk support to see if there are any steps.

I normally advise people not to do this as the potential corruption is quite high.

Good luck.
Grant

[knhn]

Randy has outlined what you want to do. I have heard it called blatting the box. Just wiping the stone & projects but keeping the flame app around in a clean state.

Changing the Flamestore device

Hiya @joe99 , sorry you’re experiencing this. Looks like a frustrating situation you’ve been battling for a while. Here’s a few options you can try. First, of course, backup your Flame projects. Make sure they are backed up and open before you delete anything. Then, copy /opt/Autodesk to be somewhere safe. You never know and its only a few gigs so keep it around. Now, you have options. You could format the entire disk and reinstall everything. Every once in a while I choose to do this, m…

[motoronlysync]

There is a process in place for cleaning project remnants up that should not affect existing projects or media/installations. If you open a support case to address this, you can reference knowledge article 000324569.

[randy]

@motoronlysync

000324569

In general I wouldn’t touch anything in opt/Autodesk/projects manually.

[paul_round]

@La_Flame

Hi Paul,

Are these projects from a old version of Flame that was uninstalled and projects archived?

Before you start deleting things in the file system, check with Autodesk support to see if there are any steps.

I normally advise people not to do this as the potential corruption is quite high.

Good luck.
Grant

Hi Grant, yes old projects from previous versions, also not showing in the project DB.

[ace_elliott]

Hi! @paul_round How did everything pan out with this one? Did you get it figured out?

I wanted to piggy back on this post as I wasn’t finding one in my search that was helping, but instead of deleting projects from the finder manually…what about media? Deleted a bunch of old projects after archiving but still see all the media in this other Managed Media folder that flame doesnt connect to…(Was having issues seeing the Managed media folders a while ago and so made a new one and now 2024 is working), but this older one Flame doesnt point to anymore.

Can I just “manually” delete these old .movs in the old managed media folder that flame doesnt point to anymore? Could i potentially just delete this entire old Media Managed Folder?

Mac studio, Flame 2024

[paul_round]

Hi Amanda,
Yes it worked out fine, This was on a linux box however, so not sure if it will different on a mac.
I did do a backup prior to deleting the projects, just in case, but it didn’t cause any issues.
However, in a shell, I still see a huge list of projects from way back, all starting with the line:
Preserving ./project name.