Schrödinger File and Resource Locations on Windows

This topic contains information on where various resources or files are kept on Windows. These are relative to the standard application data location (%APPDATA%), local application data location (%LOCALAPPDATA%), and user location (%USERPROFILE%), whose definitions are listed below. Resource locations for Windows, Mac, and Linux are also described in the Maestro Glossary.

%USERPROFILE% is set to C:\Users\username.
%APPDATA% is set to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming.
%LOCALAPPDATA% is set to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local.

Table 1. Location of files written or used by Schrödinger software.
Main Location	Folder	Files
`%APPDATA%\Schrodinger\`		`jaguar.config`
	`maestroversion`	Maestro resource files, such as `prefer.cmd`, `default.menu`, `rotamer.res`, and so on
	`scriptsN.M`	Command-line scripts
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Schrodinger\`
	`Installer\year`	Installer log files, (`%SCHRODINGER_INSTALLER_LOGFILE_DIR%`), `schrodingerRegCure_year.log`.
	`Installer`	`SchrodingerProcKill.log`
	`tmp`	Maestro temporary files, including scratch projects (`%SCHRODINGER_TEMP_PROJECT%`, `%MAESTRO_TEMP_LOCATION%`) Job directories (`%SCHRODINGER_TMPDIR%`)
	`.jobdb2`	Job database
	`appcrash`	Application crash files, `maestro_error.txt`, `maestro.EXE.dmp`
	`maestroversion`	Maestro recent projects list (`mruprojectlist`)
`%USERPROFILE%\Schrodinger`		Customized `schrodinger.hosts`, `license.txt`
	`queues`	Custom queue definition files
	product	Customized data files for a specific product