Ah. Kdenlive is being dumb again. ​​

There are tools to move the cache folders it uses, but they behave in really dumb ways.

Setting the "default location" for your Kdenlive installation does NOT change the "default folder" presented as an option when you open your "project settings". The latter is apparently unchangeable, and stuck in your "home" folder.

What's more, when you save your cache in a different location, it generates a hash name for the folder. This is apparently completely unchangeable afterwards.

So if you set it back to the default (home folder -- because the application default is basically completely useless, at least for already existing projects), then it bitches that the hash-name that it came up with "already exists".

"Well, yes, that was kind of the point, you idiot machine. I wanted to re-consolidate my cache files."

So it jumps back to wherever it was before.

I'm sure there's a way to fix this by directly hacking the project file.

I'd file a bug in the bug-tracker, but the bug-tracker is currently throwing 500 HTTP errors, and has been for months.

I get notifications in my email about bugs I was following, but I can't see them because I get server errors when I follow the link in the email. Can't complain, because it's a no-reply email address.

What are y'all doing here, guys..?
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Going to bed. I'll screw with this thing tomorrow. I'm sure there's some way to force it to behave.



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