Prusa Slicer save settings in the "cloud"
Hi,
i don't know if this topic was already discussed or not. I use a mac and a windows computer in different places to print with the same printers. It is pretty annoying to copy all the config stuff to the other computer when i am going to let's say using a new filament which is not in the presets of the slicer. Is it possible to consider this in future releases ? Maybe it makes sense to integrate a new feature in Prusa Slicer to save the configs in a cloud like google drive or something else, this would be a great function in my opinion.
Thanks
Michael
RE:
While I agree that built in cloud synching of settings would be a desirable feature, you can do this today by putting the settings directory on a cloud drive (onedrive, google, Dropbox etc) and use symlinks on your local boxes to point to it. I've been doing this for years across multiple machines.
Here's my recipe, which of course you will have to adjust for your local situation
- Go to Prusaslicer's Help menu and select Show Configuration Folder
- Go up one level and note the location/path name of the folder. It's usually /Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer (alphas and betas have different names). On Windows, it would look like C:/Users/username/AppData/Roaming/PrusaSlicer or similar.
- Create a backup copy, just in case.
- Copy the configuration folder to your network drive and delete the original. Note the new pathname, in my case /Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer
- Open a terminal window.
- Create a symlink on each computer on which you want to sync it:
ln -s "/Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer" "/Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer"
What all this does is create a "master copy" of the config folder on a network drive (OneDrive/Gooogle drive/Dropbox handle the syncing of that drive across machines in the background). The symlink creates a pointer to that folder in the location in which PrusaSlicer looks for the config folder.
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