"Directory location Mac/Linux of RM building blocks possibly not correct since version 5"

ralph_brecheise
ralph_brecheise New Altair Community Member
edited November 5 in Community Q&A

Hi,

 

I was looking into RM building blocks and was curious to know where these are physically stored on disk. My "Local Repository" is symlinked to Google Drive so I always have everything wherever I go. I wanted to do the same thing for building blocks.

 

On Mac (and I suppose Linux) the RM 8.1 configuration files are stored in ~/.RapidMiner. Inside that directory there's a folder "buildingblocks". However, when I create a building block in RM this directory remains empty. It turns out that RM writes the building block XML directly to ~/.RapidMiner instead of this (more logical) "buildingblocks" folder because I see the file

 

~/.RapidMiner/Retrieve1.buildingblock

 

instead of ~/.RapidMiner/buildingblocks/Retrieve1.buildingblock

 

When the building blocks are 1 level up I cannot easily symlink them to somewhere else. I'd like to symlink the whole "buildingblocks" directory to Google Drive but if it stays empty that's a bit pointless :)

 

Could you perhaps submit a bug report for this and fix this? It would greatly help my way of working.

 

Cheers,

 

Ralph

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  • MartinLiebig
    MartinLiebig
    Altair Employee

    Ralph,

     

    this is somewhat inteded behaviour. we've added the buildingblocks folder in 7.5 or so. It should enable you to clone a GitHub repo of building blocks into this subfolder. We did not change the "normal" behaviour of storing this in the .RapidMiner folder.

     

    Best,

    Martin

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