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Anonymous
Nov 30, 2016 12:09 AM UTC
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Where is the user location scripts folder on OSX?

Scripts in After Effects : "Scripts are also installed in user locations starting with After Effects CC 12.1."

Does anyone know what the correct path is to this folder?

~/Library/Adobe/???/Scripts??

I'm working on an administered machine, I cant install scripts to the /Application/ folder.

Would be great if Adobe could all this information to the KB article...

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Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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Nov 30, 2016 2:46 AM UTC

Scripts are in the application folder by default:

If you want to you can put Scripts in the User Libraries folder in your Documents folder or you could create your own scripts folder. This will work with many scripts:

As you can see under User Presets there is an Alias that points to the Application folder. I keep my User Preset Library in Dropbox so that any user preset I create is available on any machine that I'm working on. For most scripts you can create a User Scripts folder here just for convince. There are some scripts that must be installed in the Script UI Panels folder in the Application folder:

You'll have to get Admin access to install these scripts so they show up in the Menu. Folks that sell those kinds of scripts may have work arounds for your situation.

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    Wormville
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    Jul 30, 2020 8:30 PM UTC

    Hi Rick, I've been trying to get this to work for ages but something isn't quite right. Any idea if it's just outdated or am I doing something wrong?

     

    I've created an alias that is originally in a Google Drive File Stream folder and moved that alias to /Documents/Adobe/After Effects 2020/User Presets

     

    Is this correct? I expect the scripts to then appear under File>Scripts but this isn't the case...

     

    Any help appreciated!

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    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
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    Jul 31, 2020 3:19 AM UTC

    The User Presets panel is not for JSX files, it is for user presets, FFX files.

    As I said before scripts are linked to the applications folder. AE will never see a script in the User Presets folder.

     

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