Directory w/ texture files created and retained

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi David -

@davidcockey

Is this new behavior?

If I remember correctly, it has been that way since Rhino 5.

@davidcockey

If I have saved the file with “Save textures” checked then I can delete the directory. and the file will still open correctly with mesh textured. The textures are obviously embeded in the .3dm file.

Yes.

@davidcockey

The directory and files are not needed in this situation and are superflous.

I’m afraid not, no. (*)

@davidcockey

Is it possible to stop this directory and files from being created or retained?

If you don’t save the textures in the file, that directory will not be created when you open a file.
You can have that directory be created in a Temp directory on your system instead of in the directory where the file is located with this advanced setting:

Renderer Development Kit.Settings.RendererSupport.AlwaysUnpackEmbeddedFilesToTemp

(*) Further reading:

• RH-58320 Rendering: Load embedded textures directly without extracting first
• Embedded files folder

-wim