I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Not everyone has access or the money to pay for new hardware.
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Have to agree with that to some extent. Pisses me off that chrome installs itself to appdata (WTF!?) which is on my mechanical drive.
If i junctioned the chome installation to my C (SSD) drive would that affect performance (or rather i should say would i get the same performance as if it were initially installed to the ssd rather then by a junction). And are there any other tie-ins to chrome being installed in appdata thatd get messed up by a junction?
I use a tonne of different programs on my Win 7 Ult PC... Games, Multimedia programs as well as professional/work related programs, and they pretty much all piss me off because they throw their stuff all over the place instead of just staying in a single location/folder that I choose... :-)
Performance related issues aside, I also prefer programs to keep ALL their settings in ini-files in that same directory, instead of some settings in a huge garbled registry, which is basically just a disaster waiting to happen and then other settings in <Install folder> and other files again in %appdata%\xxx and whatever other folders in hidden places they may or may not hide their stuff in these days. :mad:
*Wonders whether the performance of modern SSD's could offset some of the performance hit of using ini-files over the registry....*:confused:
Few things makes me appreciate a program as much as when I realize I can download it in a zip/rar file, extract it to a folder, then use it.... No fuss, mess, installation or anything... and then if I don't need it anymore I delete the folder and the shortcut I used to the program, and I know there's no more crap lying around in weird places on my PC, just waiting to make my PC sluggish and or trying to make it crash due to weird shared files in hidden places having been deleted unintentionally.
Whatever.... Just a grumpy old fart here :)
jesus christ app data needs to die in a fire. why can't all the relevant things to a program be stored... y'know... in the folder i installed the program in?
Files on a PC are like pens, keys and reading glasses: as soon as you take your eye off them they run off and hide leaving you sitting there muttering, "But I put it right here only a minute ago..."
http://xkcd.com/1172/ relevant.
On the topic of Prefs, I've just noticed that when I moved my chars prefs folder over to the new testlive location, all the prefs ie bars positions windows etc.. were all preserved, but from a few patches back. Over the last few months I've added hotkey bars and repositioned them etc.. however all these settings were lost.
This was also repeatable when I moved my main AO folder. The only prefs that were preserved were from a good few patches back. Everything thing recent, such as things mentioned above as well as other things like volume settings etc, were lost.
Anybody got any ideas if AO does something new as of late with prefs?
See this thread for details. Short version: Prefs are probably stored in VirtualStore because of insufficient permissions to alter them in the AO folder directly. Nothing new, but exactly what the prefs change with 18.6 will solve.
Ah cheers Demoder! .. I thought my AO was just saving its prefs as normal, but no they were being dumped into the AppData VirtualStore location instead. I guess I almost forgot I wasn't running on Windows 95 anymore there for a moment! ha
A question before I get properly stuck in post-merge. I run 2 seperate client installs with seperate configurations and settings for various reasons. How will AppData deal with that? Will it try and squash it all together, get confused and overwrite one set with another?
I don't seem to find any entry for Funcom in my Windows XP application data folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Application Data
I sorted it by date, but nothing seems to appear.
I have AO installed on an external USB drive. The game launches, but no new prefs folder seems to be created in the above folder.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :)
Found the correct folder after a bit of searching in my Win XP installation.
Did copy my old prefs folder in there ...and it had 0.0 impact on the char.
No hotbars.
Inventory leets on the loose both in inv and in back.
Backpacks a mess.
Any more specific advice for "none database pros" how to handle this and what exactly we can salvage and what not?
Update: I found it...
on XP the default APP data folder for AO was here:
C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Local Settings\Application Data\Funcom
substitute ("admin") with your username and "C:" with your install drive
However...I agree with the last poster that moving the prefs folder here verbatim had Zero (0) effect on the game.
Help! :)
Update...got it to work.
I didn't realize the character number had changed (a subfolder name under Prefs). So I copied the entire content of the old character prefs and pasted it into the new character number (you have to get the right character number).
I hope this helps those who are slow like me.
Can anyone tell me where keybindings are stored? I only want to save those and my hotbars (which I'm assuming are ShortcutBar_*.xml).
Also, what is SpecialActions.xml?
Thanks!
Nevermind found them, they are in the prefs.xml file itself