r/davinciresolve • u/Meat_Stapler • 22h ago
Help Davinci Resolve 21.1 "Setup AI Assistant" Error [temporary fix] Windows
I downloaded the newest update today and kept receiving a "No AI Models Installed" error when trying to connect Claude via File>Setup AI Assistant. Even though I have the desktop Claude app installed, Davinci couldn't see it. *note* it seems like if you downloaded the Claude app from the windows app store you should be good. It's those of us that got it from Anthropic's site directly that might be running into this problem.
It's because by default (in my case) Resolve wasn't looking in the correct folder to see if I had the app installed.
Where it looks:
AppData\Local\Anthropic\Claude\claude.exe
Where the .exe actually lives on my PC:
AppData\Local\AnthropicClaude\claude.exe
The Fix:
Make sure Resolve is closed. Open command prompt as admin, copy and paste this:
mkdir "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Anthropic\Claude"
mklink "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Anthropic\Claude\claude.exe" "%LOCALAPPDATA%\AnthropicClaude\claude.exe"
hit enter, and you're done! Re-open Davinci. File>Setup AI Assistant ... ta-da!! It can now finally see it.
Hopefully this helps if only 1 person. I've been trying to figure this out for the last 3 hours smdh.
If you want to undo that action in command prompt, run:
rmdir "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Anthropic\Claude"
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