Multi Campaigns

I use a software called Alwaysync for that. It is free up to a certain data transfer max per month, but I liked it so much I bought it. I currently use it to back up my game state across my NAS and Thumb Drive. Me being paranoid of losing the game state, but at least if my PC drive burned up I could run off of my NAS file or Thumb Drive and be at the last known stare of the game. I am sure it would work for this purpose. I am considering this now that you mentioned it here.

 

I use dropbox, it's free up to a certain amount of storage as well. And you can publicly or privately share folders.

 

I am not sure that Dropbox will do what he is trying to accomplish. In my campaign, we used Dropbox as a repository for preloading map data, but ultimately you need a software that will sync that data to the file in the D20PRO locations. He wants to make all of his images across multiple campaigns, which are in individual folders. He can use the Dropbox (or other Cloud) to build and maintain his primary repository across multiple computers, but the individual image folders in each campaign will need to be fed from there with a sync program of sorts.

 

The issue with All-Ways Sync in this case is that all it is doing is duplicating the files, which means your picture library (for all the exact same images) doubles, triples, quadruples, etc, in space taken up on the HDD if you have two, three, four, etc campaigns that you're running.

I wonder if it's possible to set up symbolic links to an individual folder (no, not shortcuts) that might work. I seem to remember someone trying it in the past and it not working, but that might just be my brain telling me it won't work before even trying.

I'll see about trying it out sometime in the next few days (when I have time to refresh myself on symbolic links and actually try it).

 

So, I asked out in-house Windows Master at work and he gave me this:

• mklink – a command line tool included with Vista and Server 2008 and above. The most current link creation tool included with Windows. It creates Hard Links, Symbolic Links and Junction Points.

usage: mklink [[/d] | [/h] | [/j]] <NameofLink> <Target>

/d – Creates a Symbolic Link for a directory. If no flag used, creates a Symbolic Link for a file (default)

/h – Creates a Hard Link

/j – Creates a Junction Point

<NameofLink> – The name for the Symbolic Link being created

<Target> – The relative or absolute path of the target

/? – Help


I hope this is helpful, I have not tried it but the source is impeccable.