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General Settings
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This section contains optional settings to configure before a session.

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   General Settings pannel

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User info
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   User Info settings

The **User Info** pannel is here to change your user name and use color.

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Network
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   Network settings

**Timeout (in milliseconds)** is the maximum ping authorized before auto-disconnecting.
You should only increase it if you have a bad connection.

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Cache
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   Cache settings


Multi-user allows you to replicate external dependencies such as images (textures, hdris, etc...), movies, and sounds. 
On each client, the files will be stored in the multi-user cache folder.



**Cache directory** choose where cached files (images, sound, movies) will be saved.

**Clear memory filecache** will save memory space at runtime by removing the file content from memory as soon as it has been written to the disk.

**Clear cache** will remove all files from the cache folder. 

.. warning:: Clearing the cache could break your scene images/movies/sounds if they are used in a blend file! Try saving the blend file and choosing 'Pack all into blend' before clearing the cache.

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Logging
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   Advanced log settings

**log level** allows you to set the level of detail captured in multi-user's logging output. Here is a brief description on the level of detail for each value of the logging parameter:

+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
| Log level |                  Description                  |
+===========+===============================================+
| ERROR     | Shows only critical errors                    |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
| WARNING   | Shows only errors (of all kinds)              |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
| INFO      | Shows only status-related messages and errors |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+
| DEBUG     | Shows all possible information                |
+-----------+-----------------------------------------------+


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Save session data 
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.. danger::
   This is an experimental feature, it is still recommended to use regular .blend save.

The save session data allows you to create a backup of the session data.

When you hit the **save session data** button, the following popup dialog will appear.
It allows you to choose the destination folder and if you want to run an auto-save.

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   Save session data dialog.

If you enabled the auto-save option, you can cancel it from the **Cancel auto-save** button.

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   Cancel session autosave.


To import session data backups, use the following **Multiuser session snapshot** import dialog

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   Import session data dialog.

.. note::
   It is not yet possible to start a session directly from a backup.

.. _advanced: