Thread: Nuke 6.0 on Mac - Can't find cache drive - won't boot

I set my Nuke cache to an external firewire drive. Now that I'm on the road, Nuke boots up and says "cannot find cache drive.../Volumes/etc...." and immediately quits.

Can't locate a .plist file or similar I can edit the cache. Is there a way to boot Nuke with default settings?

Thanks in advance!

A few methods come to mind.

Brute force: move your preferences6.nk file out of your ~/.nuke directory. Nuke will create a new preferences6.nk file on startup, and reset the 'autosave filename', and 'disk cache' paths.

Cons: All your custom preferences won't exist (you could copy the needed settings over from your moved preferences6.nk file if you wanted, using a text editor).

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..or open your existing preferences6.nk file in a text editor, and find the following:

AutoSaveName ...
DiskCachePath ...

set them to:

AutoSaveName [firstof [value root.name] [getenv NUKE_TEMP_DIR]/].autosave

DiskCachePath /tmp [getenv NUKE_TEMP_DIR]

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Possible different approach:

Launching Nuke from a terminal/cmd prompt, set the NUKE_TEMP_DIR environment variable before using the Nuke launch command.. (wording will depend on if you are using bash, tcsh, etc)

(i.e. setenv NUKE_TEMP_DIR /tmp/ )

*../tmp/ being whatever directory you want

..it might overide the preference6.nk file.. but I haven't tested this yet.

Brilliant!

It took awhile to find the .nuke directory. It's a hidden folder which OSX really hates letting you see. But I found it via terminal.

Glad it helped.

If you want to get to your .nuke folder through Finder:

-open a Finder window
-hit cmd+shift+g
-type ~/.nuke into the search bar, and hit enter