Vegas Script Menu Location question

3d87c4 wrote on 11/29/2024, 11:45 PM

I recently bought a new computer and copied my Vegas Script Menu from C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Vegas Script Menu on my old computer to C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Vegas Script Menu on the new one. I tried running a script today and none of my custom scripts is showing up in the default menu. I can navigate to it, but the menu doesn't seem to be accessing the folder.

The newer computer has a newer version of windows that over-emphasizes one-drive & I changed some of the settings so I don't have to scroll past my entire one-drive hierarchy in the file explorer to get to the C: drive. Could this be tripping up Vegas?

Also, I am still running V22 122 on my old computer and V22 194 on the new.

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zzzzzz9125 wrote on 11/30/2024, 12:45 AM

@3d87c4 Try:

%userprofile%\Documents\Vegas Script Menu\

Instead of:

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Vegas Script Menu\

What's the difference between these two? If Onedrive is enabled on your PC, the first one will navigate to the Onedrive folder, which is the correct path for VEGAS Pro. The second one will only navigate to the local folder, which may be the wrong path.

However, I prefer this one:

C:\ProgramData\VEGAS Pro\Script Menu\

This is a fixed path and does not involve any environment variables.

Steve_Rhoden wrote on 11/30/2024, 1:15 AM

The default location is normally:

C: \ Program Files \ VEGAS \ VEGAS Pro 2x.x \ Script Menu

jetdv wrote on 11/30/2024, 9:13 AM

@Steve_Rhoden, I actually prefer <My Documents>/Vegas Script Menu. You really should not modify VEGAS' "Program Files" folder. And there are several other locations that work as well without modifying the "Program Files" folder.

@3d87c4 On my Win10 system, it is:

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Vegas Script Menu\

On my Win 11 system, it is:

C:\Users\XXXXX\OneDrive\Documents\Vegas Script Menu\

even though I turned off "OneDrive".

But you can always access it by going to "My Documents" without going through the full path to get there.

3d87c4 wrote on 11/30/2024, 10:05 AM

Thank you all for your responses.

@jetdv I was considering your suggestion already, based on what I saw browsing around on my new computer yesterday. I'll give it a try later today.

jetdv wrote on 11/30/2024, 10:11 AM

There are other advantage to using the "My Documents" folder. The main one is that the script will show up in all versions of VEGAS installed where the "program files" option will only appear in that one specific version. Now there may be cases when you want that to happen and there are other options available, not in "Program Files" that will let that happen as well.

But just open Explorer, go to "My Documents", create the "Vegas Script Menu" there, and put all the scripts from before in that folder.

I also have <My Documents>\Vegas Application Extensions where I place all of my custom commands.

3d87c4 wrote on 11/30/2024, 2:29 PM

I put a copy of the Vegas Script Menu in ...onedrive\Documents on my new computer and the script menu is fixed. (I noticed that's also setup on my old laptop too...but I didn't do it...)

But now I'm a little confused. Where is <My Documents>? Or is that just a different way of referring to C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\Vegas Script Menu? I want to be sure I'm not missing something...

jetdv wrote on 11/30/2024, 4:05 PM

On Win 11, "My Documents" is set to be:

C:\Users\XXXXX\OneDrive\Documents\

On older versions of Windows, "My Documents" was set to be:

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\

Basically, open Windows Explorer and go to "My Documents" and it will take you to the right place. I'm sure if you wanted to change the Windows settings, you could still point it to the folder that's without the "OneDrive" added. I've found it easier to just live with it.

If you open Windows Explorer and go to "Pictures", it will take you here:

C:\Users\XXXXX\OneDrive\Pictures

All of those folders are now under "OneDrive"...

john_dennis wrote on 11/30/2024, 6:55 PM

If you do an in-place upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 your previous preferences will be honored.

If you build an OTB Windows 11 system without a Microsoft account (only a local account) you won't be forced to have OneDrive involved in where you keep your data.