Re: Community Wad
Posted: 28 Oct 2019, 15:09
by nivmizzet1
Thanks Xander. I have it all working now.Xander9009 wrote:I'd suggest starting fresh.nivmizzet1 wrote:can someone help me out with google drive...
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- I have it set up as per the instructions in this thread, but it doesn't actually sync my desktop folder with the online google drive like I want it to -- instead it seems to merge my desktop and the online google drive and seems to propagate any files on my desktop on the online google drive. What I end up with, at least on my desktop, is all of the old files and a bunch of updated "copies" that all have (1) at the end of their name, which I assume means they effectively don't get recognised when I'm playing the game.
I'm just getting back into this game, very lightly, after a long layoff, and I realised my drive stopped updating about a year ago. So now I'm trying to get the WAD all up to date, which is when I ran into these problems. I have a feeling this may have been happening when I was active before though -- and I think it may have caused some problems. If anybody noticed cards with (1) in their name, or older versions suddenly replacing new versions, that might've been me...
Anyway, if anyone knows how to set it up so it's actually just keeping an up to date copy of what's on the online drive, please help me get mine set up.
EDIT: Another worrying thing -- I set google drive to "Never remove both copies", which is supposed to not propagate deletions between the desktop and online drive; but after deleting the old files from my desktop in order to start fresh it's now asking me if I want to delete these files from the online drive! (EDIT: I said no, but now the Community Loose Files folder is missing from the online drive...)
EDIT: I seriously have NFI what is going on with google drive. Now after clearing my desktop drive and then syncing, on my desktop drive folder I have a Community Loose Files folder, which I thought was on the online drive, but which is actually now missing from the online drive -- from both my drive and from the community wad folder that was shared with me. And the only cards in the Community Loose Files on my desktop are ones that were updated on 2/6/2019 and some flip cards modified on different dates. I need help badly. I really hope this isn't messing up files in the actual community WAD.
EDIT: and now for the last 2 days it's just been deleting files which I assume are cards from the loose files folder; currently 'syncing' 3273 of 15182 (after 2 days)...
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- Go online, remove the CW folders from your GD, and then make sure GD successfully removes all CW related files from your local folder. After that, go into the preferences\Google Drive and make sure the folder location is set to include Google Drive on the end, not just ending in \Desktop. Also, you can check under preferences\My Laptop to see if maybe Desktop is checked. If so, that might be what's causing your issues with the desktop.
Once that's working, I wouldn't add all of the CW folders to your drive. Instead, I'd make a folder in your GD of your own for the CW. Then, add only the "Community Wad Folders\Community Wad" folder to your drive and in the online drive browser organize it to put it into your folder. Then you could add the public tools folder, auto upload folder, and functions folder (or any folder(s)) to it as well. This will help ensure you don't have thousands upon thousands of files to sync. You can get the cards directly from the packed wad using the deck builder (right-click and select view card, then just ctrl-c and paste it into your editor). Whether or not that's how you want to do it is up to you, but it really cuts down on the number of files that need to sync. If you're wanting to use the unpacked version, then this won't help, of course.