Using two computers

[gerry]

Hi Robert,

At this stage , you best option (which is what I do) is to zip up your entire show directory (I have the same for directory for the media as well) , and then unzip on the other computer .

You can worry later about cleaning up the redundant stuff.

If at all you have anything outside  the show directory e.g. any inputs (such as LOR / LSP sequences, purchased sequences , iseq files , images, faces etc) - then  back those up as well.


 

[Akentut]

DropBox. So easy, just logon to the account you create on one PC, then download dropbox to the other computer and logon. All files will be synced when you change them.

I have my music in a folder and my sequences in another. Just set your show directory and your music direy from xLights and you're good to go.

Alan

PS> I actually use this on 3 Desktop computers (all Windows 10) and 2 laptops (one Windows 10 and one OSX Yosemite)

[sean]

When i copy to a new machine
1) all xml
2) all sound files
3) all image files
4) all video files
5) any imported sequence sources (lms,vix,etc)

I do not need iseq or fseq as those get created. By reimporting or saving.

If i want fast version, i just zip up show directory and audio directory. 


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[jediknight2]

I'm running into this issue now as well.  My folders don't match up between the two systems.  SO when I open a sequence on computer B, it throws me the can't find your media error.  I guess I'll just have to update the media location every time I open it.

[Gilrock]

Last year xLights forced you to have every file in the same show directory and folks complained about it.  So now we let you have it in different directories and therefore path names get involved.  Only way I know to fix this might be we don't write the path out unless the file isn't in the show directory or the media folder.

[Akentut]

BTW I only had one issue with DropBox and multiple computers. Be sure that all have the same user name, so the directory that has the files is the same. IE: C:\Users\Bob\Dropbox\xxxx WHere Bob is the same on all computers.

[gerry]

If you are using images in a picture effect or face mappings etc , the same issue would occur.

I think that this is where Dan's suggestion of a script to do bulk changes across xml files in a directory would be useful.

I would end up having the same issue. My work computer has the username as part of the directory structure, which the home computer obviously does not have. Small price to pay though...

   

[arw01]

couple of thoughts on this:

Move your sync directory up out of the user directory to the root c:\

use a symlink on linux to duplicate the path name for the other machines so it "exists" on your linux machine too.

I am pretty sure windows 7+ in the professional editions can also have "virtual" folders so you could possibly do the same symlink type of process that that the one path exists on all three and points to where the files really are on all three machines.

[jediknight2]

The problem I'm having on my other machine right now, the one I didn't create the sequence on...is it's complaining about the .iseq file....I can't see where that's linked to in my sequence settings.  Every time I save it throws up an error twice that it can't find it.

[Gilrock]

Open up the sequence XML file and search for "iseq" then you will see the path and can fix it right there.

[jediknight2]

Got it...maybe relative paths might be better with forcing the user to place music files within the XLights folder would fix this?  That way no matter where the XLights folder was it would work.  Minus data layer imports maybe...

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[Gilrock]

We could go back to last year's method where we just made you keep all the files in the same directory.  You're running into this because of the complaints for us to change it so that things could exist in other directories.

[jediknight2]

Is there a way to choose...I'm sure others had reason...but I can't be the only one working from multiple computers.

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[Gilrock]

You're stuck with how it is for this year.  We aren't going to make those kind of risky changes this close to December.

[jediknight2]

I can work around it...just ignore the data layer I imported ...

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