If you Dolphin guys...

**Runo** · 03-26-2011, 08:39 AM **#21**

(03-26-2011, 08:28 AM)ayami6969 Wrote: OK genius but there IS a problem and while my suggestion might not be the way to do it, there HAS to be a better way that can be implemented than what is there currently. So what would that be is the question. That's for the devs to discuss and figure out, but the problem (or potential of problems) is obviously there. You'll save yourself a bunch of unnecessary bug reports and save users unnecessary steps of copy/pasting by addressing it, and in the end that's great for everybody all around. It would be quite naive to think otherwise.

But my last post was to explain why this is not needed at all.... XD

ayami6969 · 03-26-2011, 09:20 AM **#22**

(03-26-2011, 08:39 AM)Runo Wrote:
(03-26-2011, 08:28 AM)ayami6969 Wrote: OK genius but there IS a problem and while my suggestion might not be the way to do it, there HAS to be a better way that can be implemented than what is there currently. So what would that be is the question. That's for the devs to discuss and figure out, but the problem (or potential of problems) is obviously there. You'll save yourself a bunch of unnecessary bug reports and save users unnecessary steps of copy/pasting by addressing it, and in the end that's great for everybody all around. It would be quite naive to think otherwise.

But my last post was to explain why this is not needed at all.... XD

Here's a post from Dolphin dev Billiard. Just one of many similar posts on the subject in response to people asking how to move their saves.

Quote:In Dolphin, right click a game and choose "Open Wii save folder" to find the directory for a specific game.
I'd just copy the entire "User" directory though.

Now here's from your last post Runo.

Quote:Yeah I dont copy the entire folder, this can indeed cause problems. I copy my memory cards and LLE dump.
If you copy dolphin.ini among other things and it was modified you might have problems.

See the problem?

**neobrain** · (This post was last modified: 03-26-2011, 09:36 AM by neobrain.)

meh, (despite what I may have said earlier) just copying over the whole User dir is highly unlikely to cause any bugs.. Tongue

**Runo** · 03-26-2011, 10:11 AM **#24**

It's not fail-safe, tough Tongue

ayami6969 · 03-26-2011, 10:26 AM **#25**

(03-26-2011, 09:35 AM)NeoBrain Wrote: meh, (despite what I may have said earlier) just copying over the whole User dir is highly unlikely to cause any bugs..

Awesome thank you for clearing that up.

So with that said my final post on the subject is to just say that some sort of functionality in Dolphins future to either search for or import user specific files (which AFAIK would just be saves, per game configs, the two LLE files, and maybe save states if they're deemed not too problematic) from within the UI to eliminate the need for any manual copy/pasting would be desirable.

And with that I take my leave, thank you all and goodnight!

ninjin · 03-26-2011, 11:42 AM **#26**

I was working on this a while back, but gave up when I couldn't manage a method to find a person's my documents folder automatically (knew the method how to do it, just couldn't get it to work). That and a few other problems which were solvable, just would take a little bit of time.

The code was pretty simple, and I posted a quick hack for it here:
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=14323

From what I did, its not too large a change, and if someone wants to fix it properly, I'll give them my notes on what needs to be done and where.

gosu · (This post was last modified: 03-26-2011, 12:00 PM by gosu.)

It cant be done the way i see it.
ANYWAY those guys are trying to make something thats gonna work better for us ppl who use the emu...
You shouldnt bother them to make stuff you CAN do in only 30secs.

SAVES : COPY entire "title" folder inside User/Wii/

Copy Wiimotenew and GCPadNew for Controllers.

Save them for later use somewhere on ur HDD.

Profit!

ayami6969 · (This post was last modified: 03-26-2011, 12:50 PM by ayami6969.)

(03-26-2011, 11:42 AM)ninjin Wrote: I was working on this a while back, but gave up when I couldn't manage a method to find a person's my documents folder automatically (knew the method how to do it, just couldn't get it to work). That and a few other problems which were solvable, just would take a little bit of time.

The code was pretty simple, and I posted a quick hack for it here:
http://forums.dolphin-emu.org/showthread.php?tid=14323

From what I did, its not too large a change, and if someone wants to fix it properly, I'll give them my notes on what needs to be done and where.

I'm breaking my final post vow just to say

ninjin I wish you and anyone else who contributes to your work great success! While looking at your patch thread I can see that while there may have been a problem with the code everyone agrees it's an awesome idea and a much needed feature!

I have to ask though, in essence when all is said and done is having Dolphin automatically look in your Windows User folder for the Dolphin user folder really any different fundamentally than just being able to browse in Dolphin to point to a folder location? Because I would think having to code it so Dolphin recognizes your OS and then searches in the right directory would maybe be more complicated to code than just having the ability to browse for the folder manually, and that way anyone could do it regardless of operating system they use. Unless of course there's something I'm still just not getting it sounds like the same thing to me. (I myself am on win7 though so if it only works in win7 or windows builds I'm totally cool with that lol) Or maybe just a "Import saves and settings from" option, point to folder, hit OK, bang! the stuff you need imports.

@gosu thats the same thing people said for years when there were no per game configs. "oh it only takes 30 seconds stop your whining!" But Dolphin is much better now that they've been implemented. This is the same ting.

ninjin · 03-26-2011, 02:38 PM **#29**

Basically what I was working towards was:

defaulting the user folder to my documents, from there it can read a config file and re-set the directory elsewhere if need be (ie. back to the dolphin folder or maybe to with the iso's? etc.)

Using a method to copy over any new data (anything that should probably get overwritten) to this folder.

Copy across file structure to this folder also (without the file structure in place, the system won't generate cfg files etc and hence won't save plugin settings)

Move LLE folder there also

Add a system to backup save files or copy them across from the dolphin folder to the my documents folder and vice versa (do this via a button or automatically? - not sure if this is a good idea).

Button to browse to set where you want the user folder.

Basically the plan was so that there'd be no need for setting anything each time you update dolphin.

What I got done:
quick hack to get it working
move LLE folder with user folder
method on windows to copy files
everything else, I only got half done.

Again, it's not that much coding - It just took me a bit of time to track down what happens where in the source code, and learn how to code in c++. If someone could get code working to source the 'my documents' folder, I'd probably finish it.

BriGuy20 · 04-24-2011, 07:43 AM **#30**

(03-26-2011, 02:38 PM)ninjin Wrote: Basically what I was working towards was:

defaulting the user folder to my documents, from there it can read a config file and re-set the directory elsewhere if need be (ie. back to the dolphin folder or maybe to with the iso's? etc.)

Using a method to copy over any new data (anything that should probably get overwritten) to this folder.

Copy across file structure to this folder also (without the file structure in place, the system won't generate cfg files etc and hence won't save plugin settings)

Move LLE folder there also

Add a system to backup save files or copy them across from the dolphin folder to the my documents folder and vice versa (do this via a button or automatically? - not sure if this is a good idea).

Button to browse to set where you want the user folder.

Basically the plan was so that there'd be no need for setting anything each time you update dolphin.

What I got done:
quick hack to get it working
move LLE folder with user folder
method on windows to copy files
everything else, I only got half done.

Again, it's not that much coding - It just took me a bit of time to track down what happens where in the source code, and learn how to code in c++. If someone could get code working to source the 'my documents' folder, I'd probably finish it.

+1 for this idea.