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[Japofran]

I see that it's possible to edit dosbox.conf to specify a different name for the capture folder, but am I wrong or this folder must be a subfolder of DOSBox's own installation one? DOSBox doesn't seem to understand directory paths in that config key. What I want is the same capture folder for several DOSBox versions but it's seemingly not possible. Is it?

[Qbix]

What did you enter for it ?
A quick glance at the code and my own experience tells the that full paths should be possible.

I usually have captures=/tmp
So captures=c:\mydir
should work fine as well.

[Japofran]

I think I grasped the problem. It understands paths including long filenames --at least in NTFS--, *provided* no space characters are included. They're legal in filenames but in dosbox.conf they must equal carriage returns or anyhow they won't do. So let's say I was trying to make all my DB versions save their screenshots in the latest version's default folder, the full path wouldn't do because "Program Files" has a space (well actually "Archivos de Programa" has two in my case). I got around it by using

captures=..\DOSBox-0.70\capture

Well actually I specified another separate folder, just below "Program Files":

captures=..\DOSBoxCapture

[Qbix]

I tested it myself under linux and asked somebody to try it on windows as well.
It seems to work

This is from the windows executable

Capturing Screenshot to capture 3\dosbox_000.png

[Japofran]

You're right, I've tried again and it works, I guess I didn't copy-pasted the path and mistyped it. Now I feel stupid.