[xiphos-users] Need advise on using same "Personal" on multiple computers

[rtouzeau at frontier.com]

 Thanks. I will try that.
I discovered (by poking around with emacs) that some tool I used to transfer the files added an html extension to all the files. I have now been able to "copy-paste" a snapshot from one laptop to another. Still working on the sharing problem. (Maybe I will go back to using Ubuntu after all.)

    On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 11:32:42 AM PDT, E Metsger <me at metsger.com> wrote:  
 
 
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:38:07 -0400, rtouzeau at frontier.com  
<rtouzeau at frontier.com> wrote:

> I am using two laptops both running Win 10. Xiphos is installed on both  
> (4.1.0) and the structure of the Sword folder looks the same. So, I  
> thought I could just copy the "Personal" folder from one to the other.  
> The copied folder ("target") would not be read by Xiphos on the second  
> computer. (I checked and the folder would be written to on the second  
> computer, but it would not read the files that were copied there, even  
> when I copied the entire folder from the source computer.)I even tried  
> copying the entire Sword folder over and Xiphos would work, but it would  
> not read the info in the copied Personal folder.
> Is there a setting somewhere or somehow to assign an arbitrary path for  
> Personal--like is done for StudyPad. (I would actually like to be able  
> to point Personal to a location on my Gdrive so it could really be  
> shared between my two laptops.
> Thanks.

I'm not sure whether Windows 10 supports a Linux-like soft link, although  
it appears maybe it does?[1]  If so, you can add it to your gdrive or  
dropbox and add a symbolic link, no problem.

Good luck!


[1]:  
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

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