#295 saving tux paint pictures to different file locations under saving

[Alexander Paul]

we have a computer lab with computers running windows 10 Pro 22H2, tuxpaint version: 0.9.32 -2024-01-30, windows installer exe.

I was wondering where the pictures are saved? is it the C: \program files\tuxpaint? We wanted to save the pictures under save and export directories to shared folder on the network. Is this possible?

[Alexander Paul]

Also we wanted to see if there is a quicker way of deleting all the pictures rather than clicking on each one and hit the erase button.

[William Kendrick]

Is the "savedir" option not suitable? https://tuxpaint.org/docs/en/html/OPTIONS.html#saving

Also, I don't currently have plans to add a "delete all" option; that seems a bit dangerous. :) Since the saved files are just PNGs in a folder, I'm hoping it's sufficient to just delete that folder (or its contents), either manually or via a script (e.g. batch file or whatnot).

I admit I'm not a Windows user, and focus on Linux, so if you need further help I'll summon @dolphin6k who has been maintaining the Windows port of Tux Paint for many years. Thanks!

[Alexander Paul]

Do you know the exact path of the folder where the PNGs are kept. I assume they are in C:\Program Files\TuxPaint\?

[William Kendrick]

See https://tuxpaint.org/docs/en/html/README.html#loading_into

On Windows, it's normally the user's "AppData" folder (so e.g., C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\TuxPaint\saved\)

[Alexander Paul]

Hello William Kendrick,

I was able to locate the save pictures file path. I was able to clean them up. My next issue with saving to a directory. From the pictures attached I tried changing the path on one computer to a network path W:Tuxpaint\saved which is a path on the network.[cid:9af0a252-7735-4ef7-b0e8-b576bba45883]
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[William Kendrick]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 05:07:39PM -0000, Alexander Paul wrote:

I was able to locate the save pictures file path. I was able to clean them up.

I'm glad to hear it!

My next issue with saving to a directory. From the pictures attached I
tried changing the path on one computer to a network path W:Tuxpaint\saved
which is a path on the network.

Does the path already exist on that W: drive? At the very least, the
"Tuxpaint" folder will need to be created. Currently, Tux Paint does not
try to create the full path, if any part of it doesn't exist.

Thanks,

-bill!

[Alexander Paul]

I will give that a shot.

[Alexander Paul]

Hello Mr. Kendrick,

I was able to input the right file path on the network have the picture or file save in the correct location. My next question is it possible when saving a file to prompt a save as box so that the picture or image can be named properly? Otherwise I was going to inform the teacher that we will have to rename the file in the folder path manually.

Thanks,

ALex

[Pere Pujal i Carabantes]

Currently there is not a "Save as" -accessing the filesystem- dialog.
Tux Paint saves its drawings as YYYYMMDDmmss.png, yearmonthdayminuteseconds.
If the path were the students save their drawings is common to all of them, then they may run into trouble when 2 or more students try to save a drawing exactly at the same time and that drawing get the same name of the drawing of another student.

[William Kendrick]

I wonder if it would be useful to include some kind of unique session ID as a (optional) prefix or postfix to filenames when we construct them...?