EnSight Preferences
The first time EnSight is run by an individual user, a private preferences directory is created for that user. A number of different files that control EnSight defaults are stored in the preferences directory and are read as EnSight starts up. When reading a preference file, EnSight first looks for the file in the user's private preferences directory, and failing that, it looks in the site_preferences directory. The location of the user's private preferences directory is shown in the Help → Version... dialog. The different preferences, their files and the file formats are documented elsewhere in this manual Variables and EnSight Calculator.
Disabling EnSight Preferences
The command line flag (-no_prefs
) can be used to
force EnSight to ignore the files in the user's private preferences directory for a single
run of EnSight. This can be useful to reset various files to their default values or to clear
potentially corrupted caches (see Command Line
Start-up Options).