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Do not access ~/Documents until absolutely necessary #318

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@izzyreal

Currently VMPC2000XL accesses ~/Documents even during initialization. We have to find an alternative approach:

  • demo beats can be installed after the user opens the LOAD screen, and maybe with a prompt if they want that. That would also pave the road for an informative demo beats restore flow.
  • vmpc.log can be put in a better dir than ~/Documents.
  • MIDI control presets, we'd have to figure something out for it.
  • Check what else. See mpc::Mpc::init().

One reason to fix this is to make mpc::Mpc more friendly to build in the CI/CD. We hit this case with ciwi:
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This makes the pipeline hang without any feedback whatsoever.

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  1. Gee000r commented on Feb 16, 2026

    @Gee000r

    Hi Izmar,

    Do not access ~/Documents until absolutely necessary #318

    Sometimes I have to access this directory to submit logs? Shall we refrain from doing so as this issue is corrected?

    Thanks and Cheers

  2. izzyreal commented on Feb 16, 2026

    @izzyreal
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    @Gee000r No that's absolutely fine. The title of this issue is directed at the code base. The code is accessing ~/Documents when it's not strictly necessary yet, and this can cause problems with building and publishing VMPC2000XL.

  3. Gee000r commented on Feb 16, 2026

    @Gee000r

    Ok! Thank you.

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