Saving profiles on shared drive
I have to switch between workstations and make tweaks to settings. How would you save the configuration files to shared drive (Dropbox, Synology Drive, etc) to avoid having duplicate profiles?
RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
You could use the datadir switch on your startup shortcut. In windows at least. Not sure about the other operating systems.
A start shortcut or batch file with "prusa-slicer.exe --datadir settings" for example would launch with the program getting and storing its settings from a local folder called "settings". This is useful if you are having profile problems as it will then go through the configuration wizard (unless there is a settings folder locally with settings in of course) and generate a clean setup. But you point it to your desired folder to use a shared setup. I used to use it that way with dropbox back in the v1.47 days.
There's other threads on here already asking the same question if you search and I seem to recall they mention symlinks etc which may be applicable to no windows OS.
RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
On the Mac I moved the profiles/settings directory to a shared drive and use symlinks from my computers to point to the shared location.
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RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
The datadir method works for my needs. Thanks!
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On the Mac I moved the profiles/settings directory to a shared drive and use symlinks from my computers to point to the shared location.
Can you tell how did you do this? I have multiple OSX computers and liked to have settings to sync.
RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
Thanks for the tip, solved my issue!
RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
Can you tell how did you do this? I have multiple OSX computers and liked to have settings to sync.
- Go to Prusaslicer's Help menu and select Show Configuration Folder
- Go up one level and note the location of it. It's usually /Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer (alphas and betas have different names).
- 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 (ln -s sourcefile destinationfile), e.g.:
ln -s /Users/username/OneDrive/3D Printing/Software/PrusaSlicer/PrusaSlicer /Users/username/Library/Application Support/PrusaSlicer
Formerly known on this forum as @fuchsr -- until all hell broke loose with the forum software...
RE: Saving profiles on shared drive
Did smb tried this solution? https://mac.eltima.com/mount-google-drive.html