How to Use Dropbox to Sync Games Between Machines

MikeMcGuire · 01-21-2017, 10:40 AM

When I go to File > Settings > Expert, I see that I can set a custom data path, and I want to select Dropbox, but it's not there and I can't navigate to it. Yes, I have Dropbox installed, as you can see from the second screenshot. What am I missing?

RchW · 01-21-2017, 10:45 AM

In my experience dropbox cannot be used to synch OOTP games. I tried many years ago.

Since than I've found Team Viewer the only device for want of a better name that can be used to seamlessly play OOTP on separate computers.

I could be wrong.

eriqjaffe · 01-21-2017, 11:20 AM

You could always work around OOTP's limitations and create a symbolic link in the terminal to your league's saved games file. That should make it functionally transparent to OOTP.

Code:

ln -s "/path/to/Dropbox/Your League.lg" "Documents/Out of the Park Developments/OOTP Baseball/saved_games/Your League.lg"

How to Create Symbolic Links at Command Line of Mac OS X | OSXDaily

Of course I'd verify that it works with a test league first, just in case.

Cobby · 01-21-2017, 12:38 PM

I have been using dropbox successfully to synch games between my desktop and laptop. I didn't set a custom data directory though. I just set it up by installing the game itself to a dropbox folder and setting the location of the data folders at install.

It works fine if you're careful, but it's critical that you allow enough time for the synching to take place (a lot of files are involved). If you shut down your laptop immediately after playing, your files probably didn't have enough time to get sent up into the cloud and you'll still have old files on your desktop. The worst case would be if you started playing with part new and part old files. That's a recipe for getting your game hopelessly corrupted.

01-21-2017, 10:40 AM	#1
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01-21-2017, 11:20 AM	#3
eriqjaffe Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Under The Christmas Fish Posts: 7,736	You could always work around OOTP's limitations and create a symbolic link in the terminal to your league's saved games file. That should make it functionally transparent to OOTP. Code: ln -s "/path/to/Dropbox/Your League.lg" "Documents/Out of the Park Developments/OOTP Baseball/saved_games/Your League.lg" How to Create Symbolic Links at Command Line of Mac OS X \| OSXDaily Of course I'd verify that it works with a test league first, just in case. __________________

01-21-2017, 12:38 PM	#4
Cobby Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 252	I have been using dropbox successfully to synch games between my desktop and laptop. I didn't set a custom data directory though. I just set it up by installing the game itself to a dropbox folder and setting the location of the data folders at install. It works fine if you're careful, but it's critical that you allow enough time for the synching to take place (a lot of files are involved). If you shut down your laptop immediately after playing, your files probably didn't have enough time to get sent up into the cloud and you'll still have old files on your desktop. The worst case would be if you started playing with part new and part old files. That's a recipe for getting your game hopelessly corrupted.