load outside the data folder

beginners
#1

i dont know if this has been asked before, but is it possible to load anything outside the data folder?

i have hundreds of quicktime movies in loads of datafiles, and they are mostly all the same clips. if i can put them in one folder in the root, it saves my ofw folder being so many gig in size.

openframeworks/
– v0.06/
– v0.05/
– test_movies/

what id like to do is:

fingerMovie.loadMovie("…/…/…/…/test_videos/fingers.mov");

Thanks

#2

Hello chrisoshea!

I guess

  
ofSetDataPathRoot("/");

is your friend. If you want it to set the path to something like “/Users/Shared/” don’t forget the closing “/”, that means ofSetDataPathRoot("/Users/Shared") would not work!

Regards,
Gestalt