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Offloading Global User Directory - NOTNlCE - 12-15-2013
Hey guys, I signed up for the forums just because this is driving me crazy. I use both OS X and Windows 64 bit on my computer, and I am looking for instructions on how to share a Dolphin Global User Directory between the two operating systems. I have a "Storage" drive that is NTFS formatted and fully accessible by both OS X and Windows where I keep my ISO dumps. I would also like to store the Global User Directory on this drive and just have Dolphin access that location each time, so that I can play games with cross-platform save files. IE - not have to reboot into Windows to play Metroid, while my Brawl file is on OS X. I've been reading about how to do it in Windows with THIS guide here, but haven't given it a shot, since I can't seem to manipulate OS X. That has my primary saves in it at the moment. So, the objective here is to offload the existing GUD in App Support/Dolphin to my Storage Drive, and then point Windows to that directory. Anyone have experience doing this, or can anyone assist with this? Can't figure out the command line stuff, since -U isn't a valid UNIX command.
Thanks a ton in advance.
-N
RE: Offloading Global User Directory - Anti-Ultimate - 12-15-2013
You could try to use symlinks, but I'm not quite sure if they'll work across different Operating Systems.
RE: Offloading Global User Directory - NOTNlCE - 12-15-2013
(12-15-2013, 08:23 AM)Anti-Ultimate Wrote: You could try to use symlinks, but I'm not quite sure if they'll work across different Operating Systems.I would imagine that the Symlinks would work in Windows, but I have attempted to go that route with OS X, and Dolphin does not like the use of Aliases, it won't see the directory properly. Thanks though.
RE: Offloading Global User Directory - Shonumi - 12-15-2013
Despite their similarities already to OS X's aliases, it may be worth a shot to look at POSIX and Unix-like symlinks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#POSIX_and_Unix-like_operating_systems
RE: Offloading Global User Directory - NOTNlCE - 12-16-2013
I think it worked, going to go ahead and do it in Windows now, thanks so much. The Command Line symlinks worked much better than the GUI ones.
Awesome, thanks so much for your help. Symlinks did it perfectly, I just had to reconfigure a bunch of paths, like ISO directories and memory card RAW files. The Audio has to be altered as CoreAudio isn't valid in Windows, but that's a minor bug at the moment. My save files transferred perfectly. Thanks again!
RE: Offloading Global User Directory - pauldacheez - 12-16-2013
I personally just symlink my save files, and I keep them in Dropbox instead of having any sort of shared partition between OSes. It's nicer since it syncs between computers as well as between OSes.