Just wanted to ask this question: was consideration given to placing MIDI assignments, user presets, and themes under the Documents folder? This way if a .data folder gets moved, corrupted, needs to be deleted, there's no chance of losing user specific files.
I make a point of making sure my online backup service captures these folders, but that's because I know to do that. Even then, I still had that brief moment of panic this week (before I remembered the backup) when I had to delete my RePro data folder and thought I lost everything for a second.
I'm just thinking it may be a good idea if the .data directory were reserved for factory content, whereas user presets, custom themes, and MIDI preferences all went into the OS-preferred documents folder. Just to kind of dummy-proof things.
U-he User Presets, MIDI Assignments, and Custom Skins in Documents Folder?
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- KVRAF
- 12491 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 6780 posts since 17 Dec, 2009
on macOS, this is so wildly inconsistent it's beyond any reason. (not for u-he specifically, but each plugin vendor throws shit in either of libraries, or both, or application-support, or documents, or audio music apps)
it's messy.
but in your case, symlinks in the mean time?
it's messy.
but in your case, symlinks in the mean time?
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- KVRAF
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- 12491 posts since 16 Aug, 2006
It's been inconsistent in Windows too. I'm pretty sure things have moved around a few times over the years, but it seems like Microsoft has finally settled on Users\[UserName]\Documents.Ploki wrote: Sun Dec 22, 2019 9:00 pm on macOS, this is so wildly inconsistent it's beyond any reason. (not for u-he specifically, but each plugin vendor throws shit in either of libraries, or both, or application-support, or documents, or audio music apps)
it's messy.
but in your case, symlinks in the mean time?
Symlinks would work but you'd still have to know to do them. No different than knowing you needed to back those folders up. I'm thinking more about the person who runs into an issue, has to delete their .data folder, and didn't put two and two together that they may lose user presets, themes, and assignments.
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- KVRAF
- 9525 posts since 6 Oct, 2004
I refuse to worry, so I have several backup drives, each has at least
one 'U-he-ALL' folder, which includes linux and windows u-he folders,
some labelled as to the years, installer archives, installer folders,
presets archives and folders, useful videos. Keep these in case I get handed
some older computer someday, or a 3rd-hand mac that is just good enough,
but lacks avx, etc or some oddlot C library version is needed,
or other diddybonker needs a workaround.
I also back up each entire .wine folder, containing the whole of a
linux based virtual windows environ, yet another level of backup protection.
I need to do a couple of clonezillas on my best systems, once I get
the 2019 hoarder duplicates thinned out.
Still planning the faraday cage studio
one 'U-he-ALL' folder, which includes linux and windows u-he folders,
some labelled as to the years, installer archives, installer folders,
presets archives and folders, useful videos. Keep these in case I get handed
some older computer someday, or a 3rd-hand mac that is just good enough,
but lacks avx, etc or some oddlot C library version is needed,
or other diddybonker needs a workaround.
I also back up each entire .wine folder, containing the whole of a
linux based virtual windows environ, yet another level of backup protection.
I need to do a couple of clonezillas on my best systems, once I get
the 2019 hoarder duplicates thinned out.
Still planning the faraday cage studio