i also have about 20 folders containing users files. i never have had to reboot xlights, i just point to the various directories and add a SETUP of like 32 universes of E1.31. Most users just share the xlights_rgbeffects.xml so i need to do a onetime create of xlights_networks.xml. I also normally copy one mp3 into these directories so i dont have to navigate to other directories.
i wonder what condition you ran into Gerry?
Hello Sean,
Over the last few weeks/months , much functionality has been added and tweaked at each release ie especially the Views, the timings, the defaulting of timings into Views , "lyrics timing creation" , rename and removal of models and groups, conversions of morph values when opened, some conversion of 3.x code to 4.x etc when open etc. If you change your show directory midway through , sometimes the save to views/models etc only occurs at the end when you exit (you get a prompt then to save) and you could end up saving the wrong thing in the wrong directory or not finding it when you then open it later.
i am guessing similarly if folks then change stuff on the preview etc.
I definitely noticed scenarios re missing models and an RGB_effects crash when I swapped - I did that quite often for the manual documentation. So a simple close xl and reopen when changing show directories sufficed.
It is not much of an issue if you are only opening a sequence.
