Setting location for saved projects

[Tero Ahlfors]

Your projects are saved in the database you created the first time you started Resolve. If you want to make a file from your project you can right click the project on the welcome screen and export it.

[Bruce Gaber]

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[Marc Wielage]

[Bruce Gaber] “Where, exactly, are my project saves going? I’d like to be able to put them in my main project folders along with other media. But when I do a “save as”, unlike virtually every program I’ve ever used on a Mac, there is no opportunity to set a destination folder.”
You can do this if you EXPORT the project as a DRP, and it will give you a traditional OS destination drive/folder window. I try to export a backup project every single day when I finish (or, if it’s a long day, in the middle of a day at a meal break). It’s extremely rare that I ever need the backups, but they’re nice to have for that 1 out of 100 situation where a hard drive goes south or something.

[De Daneh]

It’s not a naive question, it’s a dbase design that makes little sense for the average users (and this this is not clear when Davnici saves projects– software doesn’t communicate this at all with the user and assumes a lot of things, keeping the user in the dark until later), who aren’t running 50 network tv shows at the same time. BM needs to create a “small guy” options, and not think everyone will need their database system.

If the database gets corrupted, without back up, that’s the end of our projects.

BM wants to compete with Avid, another database driven standard, and can’t bring itself to think that the customer base for their stuff is in the Adobe crowd, not the studio system with vast and deep IT infrastructure.

Who am I to say. I am just ignorant of the process of a big budget films.

[Michael Gissing]

[Shamil Erfanian] “(and this this is not clear when Davnici saves projects– software doesn’t communicate this at all with the user and assumes a lot of things, keeping the user in the dark until later), who aren’t running 50 network tv shows at the same time. BM needs to create a “small guy” options, and not think everyone will need their database system.”

I’m a small operator but I had no problem understanding the methodology of saving projects as part of a database. The database is a historical inheritance so don’t expect BM to think about changing it.

As an operator it is possible for you to create a database per project if you want. You can easily backup your database and individual projects. Personally I find it easy to work with and it’s nice to be able to backup multiple projects in one operation. It was very useful when I decided to have an install of both Version 15 and 16beta a few months ago. BM are not leaving you in the dark unless you think reading the manual or learning about software is not for the “small guy”.

[Marc Wielage]

[Shamil Erfanian] “It’s not a naive question, it’s a dbase design that makes little sense for the average users (and this this is not clear when Davnici saves projects…”
Actually, it’s all explained in Chapter 2 of the manual starting on p. 97: Managing Projects and Databases. That’s an important chapter to read. In fact, reading the whole manual is a great idea for new users… all 3000 pages of it. Tutorials are good, too. So are the free books available on Blackmagic’s Training site.

[Stanislaw Zarychta]

I found my project inside this ridiculously hidden folder:

C:\Users\(YOUR_USERNAME)\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database\Resolve Projects\Users\guest\Projects

It’s in “.db” format so I’ll probably want to export it from DaVinci as a backup also.

[Marc Wielage]

[Stanislaw Zarychta] “I found my project inside this ridiculously hidden folder:”
That’s where it’s supposed to be.

Don’t try to copy this manually. The right way to backup a Resolve database is to use the utility within the Project Database itself. Again, if you read the manual on the pages I noted above, all is explained.

[Ido Shor]

Hey,

you can also just right-click the “Local database” tab on the left (in the first window that open), then “open File location”.
my path is : C:\Users\……\AppData\Roaming\Blackmagic Design\DaVinci Resolve\Support\Resolve Disk Database.

I use this in order to (double) backup my database to another hard-drive. (besides the auto-save I have turned on).

cheers!
I.

p.s.
stop pointing people to the manual ☺ that’s what forums are for.. fast easy answers ☺

[Marc Wielage]

[ido shor] “stop pointing people to the manual ☺ that’s what forums are for.. fast easy answers ☺”
To me, the forums are for helping people with problems not in the manual. If they’re so stupid they can’t or won’t read the manual, they’re not going to get very far with Resolve. (Or Premiere or Avid or Baselight or a dozen other similar complex post programs.)