Hi Folks;
I've dabbled with .4.10 builds for a couple of years now and enjoy the game even if I'm not very good at it. I downloaded one of the .5 betas a month or so ago and try it infrequently. I put the .5 on a different directory on a different hard drive hoping to keep them seperate.I notice that opening either of the versions removes my preferences on the other. Apparently somethng in the users/user/appdata/roaming directory is shared between the 2. This is on a windows 10 machine by the way. My question is; Is there an easy way to keep the 2 builds totally seperate from one another on the same machine? Thanks in advance.
Bazile
Is there an easy way to keep 2 builds on 1 machine?
Moderator: Oberlus
Re: Is there an easy way to keep 2 builds on 1 machine?
Not sure how much I would need to explain step by step but generally you can create a batch script that sets APPDATA environment variable to a different place and run FreeOrion with the changed environment variable.
First copy users\user\appdata\roaming\FreeOrion to x:\AppDataCopyForFreeOrion\Roaming\FreeOrion
That should work. I had to do something similar to circumvent a bug where multiplayer saves would not be loaded with a "funky" username but I just created a symlink to the original directory but the symlink would not have my "funky" username in it (so I didn't create a copy of roaming\freeorion just pointed to it via a symlink)
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set APPDATA=x:\AppDataCopyForFreeOrion\Roaming
x:\CopyOfFreeOrion\FreeOrion.exe
That should work. I had to do something similar to circumvent a bug where multiplayer saves would not be loaded with a "funky" username but I just created a symlink to the original directory but the symlink would not have my "funky" username in it (so I didn't create a copy of roaming\freeorion just pointed to it via a symlink)