Blender’s Directory Layout

This page documents the different directories used by Blender (which can be helpful for troubleshooting).

There are three different directories Blender may use, their exact locations are platform dependent.

LOKAL

Location of configuration and run-time data (for self-contained bundle).

BENUTZER

Location of configuration files (typically in the user’s home directory).

SYSTEM

Location of run-time data for system wide installation (may be read-only).

Für systemweite Installationen wird sowohl das SYSTEM als auch das BENUTZER Verzeichnis gebraucht.

For locally extracted Blender distributions, the user configuration and run-time data are kept in the same subdirectory, allowing multiple Blender versions to run without conflict, ignoring the USER and SYSTEM files. This requires you to create a folder named config in the LOCAL directory.

Platform Dependent Paths

Hier sind die Orte für jedes Betriebssystem:

Linux

LOKAL
./2.90/
BENUTZER
$HOME/.config/blender/2.90/
SYSTEM
/usr/share/blender/2.90/

Bemerkung

The path ./2.90/ is relative to the Blender executable and is used for self-contained bundles distributed by official blender.org builds.

Bemerkung

The USER path will use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if it is set:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/blender/2.90/

macOS

LOKAL
./2.90/
BENUTZER
/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.90/
SYSTEM
/Library/Application Support/Blender/2.90/

Bemerkung

macOS stores the Blender binary in ./Blender.app/Contents/MacOS/Blender. The local path to data and config is:

./Blender.app/Contents/Resources/2.90/

Windows

LOKAL
.\2.90\
BENUTZER
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.90\
SYSTEM
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.90\

Verzeichnisaufbau

Dieses ist die Anordnung der Verzeichnisse innerhalb der oben beschreibenen Ordner.

Where ./config/startup.blend could be ~/.blender/|BLENDER_VERSION|/config/startup.blend for example.

./autosave/ ...

Autosave blend-file location. (Windows only, temp directory used for other systems.)

Suchreihenfolge: LOKAL, BENUTZER.

./config/ ...

Standardeinstellungen und Sitzungsinformationen

Suchreihenfolge: LOKAL, BENUTZER.

./config/startup.blend

Standarddatei beim Start von Blender.

./config/userpref.blend

Standardeinstellungen beim Start von Blender.

./config/bookmarks.txt

File Browser bookmarks.

./config/recent-files.txt

Liste der zuletzt verwendeten Dateien.

./datafiles/ ...

Laufzeitdateien

Suchreihenfolge: LOKAL, BENUTZER, SYSTEM

./datafiles/locale/{sprache}/

Statische vorkompilierte Sprachdateien für die Benutzeroberfläche.

./scripts/ ...

Python Skripte für die Benutzeroberfläche und Werkzeuge.

Suchreihenfolge: LOKAL, BENUTZER, SYSTEM

./scripts/addons/*.py

Python add-ons which may be enabled in the Preferences include import/export format support, render engine integration and many handy utilities.

./scripts/addons/modules/*.py

Modules for add-ons to use (added to Python’s sys.path).

./scripts/addons_contrib/*.py

Ein weiteres Verzeichnis für Erweiterungen, welches für von der Community entwickelte Erweiterungen bestimmt ist (muss manuell angelegt werden).

./scripts/addons_contrib/modules/*.py

Modules for addons_contrib to use (added to Python’s sys.path).

./scripts/modules/*.py

Python Module, die unsere Kern-API und Hilfsfunktionen für das Importieren anderer Skripte enthält (wurde zu Pythons sys.path hinzugefügt).

./scripts/startup/*.py

Skripte, die beim Programmstart automatisch importiert werden.

./scripts/presets/{preset}/*.py

Presets used for storing user-defined settings for cloth, render formats, etc.

./scripts/templates_py/*.py

Example scripts which can be accessed from Text Editor ‣ Templates ‣ Python.

./scripts/templates_osl/*.osl

Example OSL shaders which can be accessed from Text Editor ‣ Templates ‣ Open Shading Language.

./python/ ...

Bundled Python distribution.

Suchreihenfolge: LOKAL, SYSTEM

Temporary Directory

The temporary directory is used to store various files at run-time (including render layers, physics cache, copy-paste buffer and crash logs).

The temporary directory is selected based on the following priority:

  • User Preference (see File Paths).

  • Environment variables (TEMP on Windows, TMP & TMP_DIR on other platforms).

  • The /tmp/ directory.