Deleting Saved Characters

petefc · Post by **petefc** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 4:14 pm

I have saved a number of characters in the Character Wizard for a project which is now complete. I wish to reduce the clutter that exists in my CW. If I delete them I can appreciate that they will no longer be available for future projects - that's obvious. What concerns me is that by deleting them they will disappear from the completed project.

Suppose I wanted to "reshoot" one or more scenes ? Would the characters still be available to me from within the project ?

A test file indicates that once a modified character has been imported to a project, it is there for good and I need have no fear about tidying up the character list in the CW. I guess I just need reassurance that cleaning it up will not predudice any projects already completed.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:56 pm

Yeah, you're safe deleting them. But if you have the HDD space, what would it hurt to back up a copy of them? Just in case you find a need for them down the road.

petefc · Post by **petefc** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:22 pm

Thanks for the reassurance. I regularly back up my HDD to an external drive. However, are you suggesting backing up specific files, or file, somewhere else ?

Where are they held that they might be retrieved for future use ?

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:14 pm

Yes, I made a copy of the CW folder from the AS root folder and a copy of the presets that I placed into master file folder. I have all my animation projects and their assets in there. I'm on PC, but here is the path I use to get to the presets so I can copy or replace as I need from my master file.

PATH

C:\Users\johnbo\AppData\Roaming\Smith Micro\Anime Studio Pro\8.1\Character Wizard Presets