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

[Byron Smith]

Windows 10 Cmd shell supports MKLINK or you can do "New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink ..." in PowerShell (on newer Windows 10 PCs, I think starting with PowerShell v5 maybe) but the PowerShell is still a bit harder for me to remember how to use when creating Symbolic Links. Sometimes, you can cheat by creating a link in Folder Explorer that will actually function like a symbolic link, but I think that's unlikely to work on average.

https://winaero.com/blog/create-symbolic-link-windows-10-powershell/

Byron

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From: rtouzeau at frontier.com <rtouzeau at frontier.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 16:12
To: Xiphos Users <xiphos-users at crosswire.org>; rtouzeau at frontier.com <rtouzeau at teleport.com>; E Metsger <me at metsger.com>
Subject: Re: [xiphos-users] Need advise on using same "Personal" on multiple computers

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<mailto:rtouzeau at frontier.com>
<rtouzeau at frontier.com<mailto: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/<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.howtogeek.com%2Fhowto%2F16226%2Fcomplete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Ce20adc58694b471bbac908d727459130%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637021052051433721&sdata=a0rymtBSkuHiuNek5cFI%2Fig5doRQSgV0nDyoxp%2BIiPc%3D&reserved=0>

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