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Hi,

I work in a small archviz studio and i am trying to streamline workflow and settings etc.

I was having a look at the 3dsmax.ini file in order to try to standardize the max settings on everybodies computer. In general it would work out fine if i would copy it over to other computers so that people would have the same settings as on my computer.

But i am running into a problem now. The users that are loged in with a different username get errors when using my ini file. This because severall paths in the ini file are set to my username instead of their name.

For example:

Temp=C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsMaxDesign\2010 - 64bit\enu emp

In this path “admin” is my username. But if joe would log in with his username “joe” then this name would need to be replaced.

I was trying to replace the username with %username%, as you would do in a batchscript for example. But that did not work out. So i was wondering if there is a simple solution to this problem.

Perhaps i need to set max to look for the ini file the root of the max install?

And as of next week we will be setting up a renderfarm. So i was wondering if there is also a simple setup to be sure that all renderservers will be running the same 3dsmax.ini file.

Any help is more then welcome.

Best regards,

Joost

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Edit the Install Settings.ini file in the root of your 3dsmax install folder.

[Least User Privilege]
useUserProfiles=0

This will make 3dsMax act like it use to in pre-v9 days :slight_smile:

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Hello Mike,

Thank you for your reply.

I was also thinking of setting the useUserProfiles to 0.
Loocas Duber also pointed out to me that i could use 3ds max command-line swith to include a other ini file. So i guess either way i should be able to figure out a way of implementing a centralized ini.

cheers,

Joost

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Hi Mike,

Sorry, one more question. Do you make use of the useUserProfiles=0 in your office?

Best regards,

Joost

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Woah… Thanks for the tip Mike. I wish I had just known that when Max9 came and would have saved a lot of headache… Don’t tell me that was in the readme or something… :slight_smile:

SamiV.

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