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Macro folder redirection through environment variable does not work ?

  • 1.  Macro folder redirection through environment variable does not work ?

    Posted 07-31-2023 23:43

    Hi guys,

    as the most of my customers and partners are having issues with the read-only property of the MacroCommands3 folder (as expected BTW), I´ve tried to create first manually the environment variables as described by the TBC team as follows:

    "TBC does support macro folder redirection. If you define an environment variable named "TBC_Macro3Path", the value of the variable should be the folder where TBC should search for macros (instead of C:\ProgramData\Trimble\MacroCommands3). Environment variable "TBC_Macro3Path2" can be used to define a folder that TBC searches in addition to the normal folder."

    For some reason, it does not work on my side. Not sure whether I´m doing something wrong, but did any of you tried it and it works?

    Thanks a lot.

    Regards,

    Fernando



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    Fernando Calvo
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  • 2.  RE: Macro folder redirection through environment variable does not work ?

    Posted 08-11-2023 14:05

    Remember you need to restart TBC to pick up environment changes. If running from Visual Studio, you need to restart that too.



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    Gary Lantaff
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  • 3.  RE: Macro folder redirection through environment variable does not work ?

    Posted 10-15-2025 16:30

    Hi Fernando, did you get another folder to work?

    Where is that quote from? I did find the environment variable mentioned in the stone old dimensions presentation https://community.trimble.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDocumentFile.ashx?DocumentFileKey=40600eca-47da-448a-bff4-9dfebcbaaffa&forceDialog=0 but nowhere else.

    Tried it on my private machine with latest V2025.10, doesn't work.

    Facing the same issue now with the standard folder being locked during/after install. IT is meanwhile unwilling/unable to remotely login and unlock the folder. Everything needs to be done during the installation via software deployment system, any manual changes afterwards are denied.



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    Ronny Schneider
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  • 4.  RE: Macro folder redirection through environment variable does not work ?

    Posted 10-16-2025 01:38

    Hi Ronny,

    unfortunately I don´t remember where I picked this quote from, but probably from the release notes or from somewhere inside this community, however the information was from Trimble.

    I didn´t get it to work and din´t try other ways as I already wasted a lot of time and didn´t want to keep trying if it´s presumably even not possible anyway, for some reason.

    Sorry for not being able to help much with this.

    Regards,

    Fernando



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    Fernando Calvo
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