Many of you might have Cinema4D on more than one computer. There is a pretty simple way of syncing up all your layouts, shortcuts and plugins between multiple computers. Here i will explain the process with Dropbox.com, but you can do the same thing with copy.com or any other service (Copy link is a referral, so you and my girlfriend both get an extra 5gb of storage) Copy has been discontinued
Make a shortcut to cinema4D in your R17 folder.
right click on it and click properties.
now in the Target field add:[ -g_prefspath=”E:\dropbox\c4d prefs”]
without the square brackets. So mine looks like this:
- “E:\soft\CINEMA 4D R17\CINEMA 4D.exe” -g_prefspath=”E:\dropbox\Dropbox\c4d stuff\c4d prefs\prefs”
Don’t forget the space before the “g_prefspath”.
Now when you open Cinema4D from that shortcut, thats where its going to get all your layouts and shortcuts and plugins from.
If you want to get your old prefs and put them there you can do that easily. By opening cinema4D from the cinema 4d.exe file. pressing ctrl+e, and clicking the “open preference folder” button in the bottom left of the window. From there you can also check where your current open instance of C4D is getting its preferences.
Now you can pin that shortcut to the start menu or copy it onto your desktop. Wherever you want 🙂
If you want an extra 5gb on top of the free 15gb you get at copy.com, click here: https://copy.com/?r=fTEbri Copy has unfortunately been discontinued 🙁
and help my girlfriend get an extra 5Gb too =)
Note: in R15 it was different, so my target path looked like this: “E:\soft\CINEMA 4D R15a\CINEMA 4D 64 Bit.exe” -homedir “E:\soft\CINEMA 4D R15a\myprefs”
cheers,
Aleksey
K
Very useful! Before that i solve this by creating custom symbolic links to my path to cloud folder, and some prefs are not getting by c4d. This method is how it suppose to be. Very cool! Thank you!
aleksey
Glad it helped!