Hey all!
We have an active project with an entire sequence that is done and ready to be archived. It’s taking up a heap of space on our high speed network share.
However, there are other sequences still in progress that need to stay on this network share
As we are following as many defaults as possible, all work, publish etc templates begin with {root[work]} or something similar, pointing to the high speed share.
Is there any clever way to move the root[work] directory for all publishes inside specific sequences, shots or assets mid job?
I’m afraid that is not possible. The root is not used only when the files are integrated, but also when the files are loaded.
You can define which root is used for integration in core settings based on filters, but it is not per folder/task, and you can affect only new integrated files, the existing will still have the same root in template as before. ayon+settings://core/tools/publish/template_name_profiles
Changing this mid production may cause some issue.
If possible, define new root in project anatomy, use the new root in settings, from that moment new published files for your filter will be integrated there. Do not change existing root value, you would have to move the files too. Do not move the files of already integrated files, you would have to do changes in database.
That makes sense, thx
I think we’re going to have to simply move all of the files manually, off-pipe, as an archival process. And if we need to work with these published files again, we’d restore them again manually.
I hear that archival / restoration is a big process at some studios - but we need to free up many terabytes, so it’ll have to be done by hand for now