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.

LOCAL:

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

USER:

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).

For system installations both SYSTEM and USER directories are needed.

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

Here are the default locations for each system:

Linux

LOCAL:
./3.6/
USER:
$HOME/.config/blender/3.6/
SYSTEM:
/usr/share/blender/3.6/

Nota

The path ./3.6/ is relative to the Blender executable and is used for self-contained bundles distributed by official blender.org builds.

Nota

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

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/blender/3.6/

macOS

LOCAL:
./3.6/
USER:
/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.6/
SYSTEM:
/Library/Application Support/Blender/3.6/

Nota

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

./Blender.app/Contents/Resources/3.6/

Windows

LOCAL:
.\3.6\
USER:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\
SYSTEM:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.6\

Nota

For installations from the Window’s Store, the USER and SYSTEM directories are inside a special folder resembling: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\BlenderFoundation.Blender<HASH>\LocalCache\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender where «HASH» is a string specific to each installation.

Esquema de caminhos

This is the path layout which is used within the directories described above.

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

./autosave/ ...

Localização do arquivo salvo automaticamente. (Somente para Windows, o diretório temporário é usado como padrão em outros sistemas).

Search order: LOCAL, USER.

./config/ ...

Defaults & session info.

Search order: LOCAL, USER.

./config/startup.blend

Default file to load on startup.

./config/userpref.blend

Default preferences to load on startup.

./config/bookmarks.txt

Favoritos do navegador de arquivos.

./config/recent-files.txt

Menu com a lista de arquivos recentes.

./datafiles/ ...

Runtime files.

Search order: LOCAL, USER, SYSTEM.

./datafiles/locale/{language}/

Static precompiled language files for UI translation.

./scripts/ ...

Python scripts for the user interface and tools.

Search order: LOCAL, USER, SYSTEM.

./scripts/addons/*.py

Add-ons Python que podem ser habilitados em Preferences, incluindo os formatos suportados para importação/exportação, integração com motores de renderização e muitas utilidades práticas.

./scripts/addons/modules/*.py

Módulos para add-ons a serem usados (adicionados ao diretório «sys.path» Python).

./scripts/addons_contrib/*.py

Another add-ons directory which is used for community maintained add-ons (must be manually created).

./scripts/addons_contrib/modules/*.py

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

./scripts/modules/*.py

Módulos Python contendo nossa API principal e funções úteis para outros scripts para serem importados (adicionados ao diretório «sys.path» Python).

./scripts/startup/*.py

Scripts que são automaticamente importados durante a inicialização.

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

Presets usadas para o armazenamento de outras configurações definidas pelos usuários para tecidos, formatos de renderização, etc.

./scripts/templates_py/*.py

Scripts de exemplo que podem ser acessados a partir do Editor de texto ‣ Modelos ‣ Python.

./scripts/templates_osl/*.osl

Sombreadores OSL, os quais podem ser acessados a partir do Editor de texto ‣ Modelos ‣ Linguagem de sombreamento aberto.

./python/ ...

Distribuição do Python embutida.

Search order: LOCAL, SYSTEM.

Local Cache Directory

The cache directory is used to store persistent caches locally. Currently it is only used for the indexing of Asset Libraries. The operating system is not expected to clear this automatically.

The following path will be used:

  • Linux:

    $XDG_CACHE_HOME/blender/ if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set, otherwise $HOME/.cache/blender/

  • macOS:

    /Library/Caches/Blender/

  • Windows:

    %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Blender Foundation\Blender\Cache\

Diretório temporário

O diretório temporário é usado para armazenar vários arquivos em tempo de execução (incluindo render layers, cache físicos, copy-paste buffer e logs de erros).

O diretório temporário é selecionado com base na seguinte prioridade:

  • Preferências de usuário (see Caminhos doe Ficheiro).

  • Variáveis de ambiente (TEMP no Windows, TMP e TMP_DIR em outras plataformas).

  • O diretório definido como /tmp/.

Overriding Default Directories

It’s possible to override the default USER and SYSTEM directories using environment variables.

While this shouldn’t be needed for typical usage, some specialized use cases may take advantage of this, such as:

  • Using a shared network drives for specific paths.

  • Isolating an instance from the default user files to prevent automated tasks from accessing user configuration.

See Variáveis de ambiente for details.