Dropbox save path

[Listen1]

Hey, I gave a look in the forums, found one post of 2013 showing how to make this from mac to windows, tried it and failed...

So does anyone have a quick guide on how to alter the save path of the core game? I'll be transfering it to dropbox so that I can play in more than one computer.

Thank you very much.

[milon]

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=17284.0
You *can* alter the save path, but there's a bug preventing screenshots from saving if you do.

That's so weird that you can't specify multiple folders for DropBox to sync.  Unless you want to move your Drop Box folder into the Ludeon folder and then use selective sync to only sync what you want. 

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Dropbox was kind of a pain, I ended up using cubby instead, bit more flexibility for things like this.

[RemingtonRyder]

If you have a USB thumb drive you could use that as your save folder. A bit low-tech but hey, if it works...

[JT]

One thing I like to do is to use symbolic links to hardlink a Dropbox folder as my save folder.  I use this technique for The Pit (Sword of the Stars) since I tend to run that on both my ultrabook and desktop.  I don't use it for Rimworld (I only play it on my desktop -- Rimworld is too CPU intensive for me to run it on my ultrabook without fear of nuking my battery), but the principle will almost certainly translate.  I don't know how to do symbolic linking on a Mac, although I know it's possible, but I can at least give instructions on how to use LinkShellExtensions on Windows.

Basically, locate your game's save folder and cut and paste it into a convenient folder in your dropbox folder, then Pick Link Source on that folder and Drop As Junction into your Appdata folder.

1) Install LinkShellExtension and reboot to allow registry to populate.
2) Cut folder "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\Saves".
3) Make Dropbox folder (e.g. "\Dropbox\CloudSave\Rimworld").
4) Paste Saves folder into new Dropbox folder (now "\Dropbox\CloudSave\Rimworld\Saves").
5) Right-click Saves folder on Dropbox and choose "Pick Link Source".
6) Go back to "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\"
7) Right-click any whitespace in the folder window and choose "Drop As->Junction".  A new symlink is produced to the Saves folder in the same directory.
To Rimworld, nothing appears to have changed -- it still writes to "C:\Users\yourname\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\Saves".  However, the data is actually read from/stored on your Dropbox folder.  Dropbox will upload it automatically in the background whenever you have access to internet, as normal.
9) On any other computer where you also have Dropbox and LinkShellExtensions installed and want to re-use the same files, simply delete its own "Ludeon Studios\Saves" folder and repeat steps 5 through 7.  Make sure that Dropbox writes to the same folder on both computers, though, or else it won't work.

This method also works for copying the whole Ludeon folder from Appdata, if you want the other stuff to be synched too.  Just bear in mind that typical saves will take around 15-20 MB, so you'll quickly run out of space with a basic free Dropbox account (2 GB).  You can get a little more with referral bonuses, but if you use the technique for everything you'll probably need a paid plan.

[edit]Come to think of it, you'll almost certainly want to copy the whole LocalLow\Ludeon Studios folder over, rather than just the saves.  Otherwise you won't have access to the world file, which would probably be bad.

[top_hat_tomato]

You may be able to use the same method as explained here http://lifehacker.com/how-to-sync-your-saved-pc-games-between-computers-with-1501078690

I'm not too educated on this matter, but in my experience it was a one time set-up.

[Listen1]

Thanks to you both! I'll try copying the whole ludeon scheme.

About dropbox size, I have 48 gigs if i'm not mistaken so no problem there. I also have 1 Tera on OneDrive but... yucks, that suck.