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To centrally manage client-side path translation, see Studio-wide Preferences and Defaults - external preference files
AppFinder jobs
The last topic for cross-platofrm rendering is the path to the application itself. Maya, for example, may be in either /Applications/Autodesk/maya<ver>/Maya.app,
C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya<ver>,
or /usr/autodesk/maya<ver>
, or some other custom location based on the operating system.
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