Deploying settings on numerous machines

Tommy Weir

• May 23, 2016 11:36

Hi

I get to teach C1 next semester in our College's computer lab and I'm looking at setting up a standardised workspace, tool tabs and sets, presets and output processes which can be counted upon being on each machine.

What do I copy to ensure that it is consistent across the lab, given multiple student accounts per machine?
- I see C1 stores these settings in User/Library/Application Support/Capture One/
- So if I create a 'Capture One' folder in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/ will that be recognised and used by C1 for every user?
- I am planning on Backups to be stored elsewhere than in Library. Is that information stored in Preferences? The students will be shooting Sessions so it's hopefully not an issue. But advanced students may wish to develop a catalog over time.

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  RobiWan

  • May 23, 2016 17:14

  [quote="Tommy Weir" wrote:
  - So if I create a 'Capture One' folder in Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/ will that be recognised and used by C1 for every user?
  

  
  
  I'm not sure - try it out, but I thing it can't work.
  The App is coded so, that at first run will create some folders and settings from "internal Template" and store it in User-Directory.

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  Permanently deleted user

  • May 23, 2016 18:02

  I'd suggest a couple of things:
  
  1. Talk to the school's I.T. department and ask them how they deploy applications to student computers. They may be able to help you create a script that automates your installations and in the process sets up the defaults that you want.
  
  2. From what I've seen, C1 configurations are user-specific. On a Mac, custom settings are in each user's app support folder (~/Library/Application Support/Capture One/), and then settings are in various Presets, Print, Styles, Templates, and Workspaces folders. I don't know what the corresponding path is for Windows.
  
  What I've done to "synchronize" my C1 settings among multiple machines is to first install C1 on each machine, and then copy the relevant custom settings from my master computer's Capture One folder to each other computer's corresponding folder, or in the case of multiple users on one machine, to each user's corresponding folder. That's what you'd need to do in your scheme, I think. BTW: I also backup those settings in addition to my normal backups, because I've had to reinstall some of them a couple of times.
  
  3. Depending on what you want to teach, I think there would be value in showing students where their settings are stored, so perhaps consider creating a package (folder, zip archive, etc.) containing the presets/settings you want, and then having the students install them on their machines early in the class. Among other things, this teaches people how to share settings among colleagues.
  
  Enjoy your class!

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  Tommy Weir

  • May 26, 2016 07:28

  Thanks both. I tried as I suggested, replicating the C1 settings folders in the main Library folder and logging in as a different user, but no, it didn't work.
  
  I think it's going to require a script which automates this as part of a user account setup. There certainly is value, as Nature Isme suggests in showing students where settings are stored but the nature of the amount of time, the curricula to be covered, the variance in levels of ability and approach... all constraints. Any streamlining I can do of the teaching process is always useful.
  
  I am looking forward to the class, tremendously in fact!

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