Reefboi16 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 First off this is my first post here, I come from the well known HS community. Still active there and using that front end but I saw many videos of this FE and am kind of in love with what is has to offer, with how it is evolving seems like weekly. Sat in on a developers session, love that Jason listens to the community. Just seems like a great place to converse with other about what we love and am working on a new build and would love to put launchbox/ big box on it just for the different look! Anyways moving on to my question is there a way to have all work saved on a cloud bases file system where I can work on my machines from other machines without having to have them on all the time. Currently I am using teamviewer and remoting in and working on files/ artwork/ themes that way but sometimes the machine is turned off and I'm not home to flip them on. Im very lucky that the wife is into retro gaming and allowed me to have the upstairs bedroom for just arcade / theater but sometimes she wants me to hang out downstairs hehehe which I understand. Thanks for the help guys! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot763 Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 I think I've heard Jason mention that he keeps everything relatively portable and in the Launchbox folder so that it is easy to sync with Dropbox. I don't personally use it but I don't see why setting up the Launchbox directory in Dropbox wouldn't work. Personally, I share the drive that Launchbox and all of my emulators/roms/media is on from my HTPC to my local network so I can just access it directly from my laptop anywhere in the house but that wouldn't work for you wanting remote access. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted August 25, 2016 Share Posted August 25, 2016 Yes, the best solution is to sync everything with Dropbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamfighter Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Jason, would that include installing Launchbox within the Dropbox file in addition to storing all the roms and emulators (mame) within Dropbox? As a roundabout way of asking the same question...is there anything you would not install/store in Dropbox? Thank you, sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massatomic Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 It wouldn really matter, as dropbox just creates a folder on your drive and syncs it to the server when changes occur. it personal preference really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamfighter Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Hmm. Is there any reason you would choose not to put everything in Dropbox? I'm using my desktop PC for the busy work, and wanting to sync with a pc upstairs in the playroom with a tank stick and a pc in a mame cabinet down in the basement. Of course, each setup will have separate controller settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massatomic Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Not sure you would have them sync arcoss the two setups and keep different controller schemes. sounds like you may be better of jamming a cheap hard drive in your router (if it supports) as a nas to share across your house. At least it would still work if your internet goes down. but if you want different controller setups you may just need to keep a seperate copy on the arcade cab at the min. You can keep LB completly portable by having your emulators and roms all contained within the LB install folder. Its just copy and paste then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 I know that people used to sync settings across devices even Jason used to do that with his arcade and I never heard him complain about having controller issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamfighter Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 I appreciate all the responses. I suppose I may just need to play with it a bit...I just wanted to make sure there wasn't a definitive "best way" to do it in this scenario. Is Dropbox the cloud most folks would recommend? I was leaning towards using OneDrive as I have a user (with it's own one drive) called "Xxxxx Arcade." I thought it would make sense to simply load that user on all three pc's to keep everything synced. However, I'm not certain if you would then have to have a log-in screen on each computer which would diminish the arcade aesthetic . I'm still somewhat baffled how an installed program such as mame or launchbox doesn't have to be installed on each computer (but that just shows my ignorance). I'm gonna have to take a leap of faith. Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Yeah I'm pretty sure that you can use OneDrive or GoogleDrive and it would all be the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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