FGU - failure accessing campaign data on network drive

I have my gamedata files on a network share, but when I try to start up my campaign it fails to access the files, it appears that it's stripping the leading '\' from the path. If I create a new campaign it works fine, but once I exit I can't get back in.


[4/4/2020 2:31:53 PM] [<color="red">ERROR</color>] LAUNCHER START BUTTON: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Destination directory not found: \<XXXX>\Fantasy Ground Unity\campaigns\Test
at System.IO.File.Copy (System.String sourceFileName, System.String destFileName, System.Boolean overwrite) [0x00162] in <567df3e0919241ba98db88bec4c6696f>:0
at System.IO.File.Copy (System.String sourceFileName, System.String destFileName) [0x00000] in <567df3e0919241ba98db88bec4c6696f>:0
at JECDJEHHEIE.MDAFEAKHIOA () [0x0004d] in <46db431682984e49996a758532796682>:0
at JECDJEHHEIE.ILNNFDLFCHH (System.String OEKADEOGOOL, System.String EDDLBLODPCM, System.String BOLDJMHMGNJ, System.String DMNMMAFPGKE, System.Boolean CMFJOCMLFOP, System.Boolean JOJMOLKGDPJ, System.Int32 PGGLDPLNGBD, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] GOEAJEEMHLH) [0x0005b] in <46db431682984e49996a758532796682>:0
at FG.LauncherScene.GJBJEPOCJNF () [0x000a7] in <46db431682984e49996a758532796682>:0
at FG.LauncherScene.StartButtonClicked () [0x00037] in <46db431682984e49996a758532796682>:0

It's correct in the registry.

Are you running on Mac OSX or Windwows?

It looks like it's failing on a backup/copy routine for backing up the campaign on load. I can't see anything obvious for why it would strip a slash. Might need to try and set up here.

I will mention that loading and sharing with players will be "much" slower on a network drive than a local drive.

Regards,
JPG

This is on Windows 10. I've been using the same network location on FGC, it's slower, but acceptable.

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Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

Are you running on Mac OSX or Windwows?

It looks like it's failing on a backup/copy routine for backing up the campaign on load. I can't see anything obvious for why it would strip a slash. Might need to try and set up here.

I will mention that loading and sharing with players will be "much" slower on a network drive than a local drive.

Regards,
JPG

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Just a heads up that you shouldn't use the same data folder for both FGC and FGU. They are not data-compatible with each other. FGU can read FGC campaigns; but not vice-versa.

Regards,
JPG

Yup, I set them upin different directories. thanks for the tip though

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Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

Just a heads up that you shouldn't use the same data folder for both FGC and FGU. They are not data-compatible with each other. FGU can read FGC campaigns; but not vice-versa.

Regards,
JPG

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is your network path UNC or mapped?

One way to get around this is to make a mount point on your Windows 10 PC linking to the network share. This is done using the MKLINK command, and creates a symbolic link to another resource. So as an example would be you have a directory on C:\FGDATA and want to have a link to \\server\FGU:

mklink /D C:\FGDATA\FGU \\server\FGU

Now you can find the FGU structure a C:\FGDATA\FGU, this will allow you to save the files "locally" and on the network share at the same time.

Feel foolish not thinking of that myself.. :o

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Originally Posted by Mirloc

One way to get around this is to make a mount point on your Windows 10 PC linking to the network share. This is done using the MKLINK command, and creates a symbolic link to another resource. So as an example would be you have a directory on C:\FGDATA and want to have a link to \\server\FGU:

mklink /D C:\FGDATA\FGU \\server\FGU

Now you can find the FGU structure a C:\FGDATA\FGU, this will allow you to save the files "locally" and on the network share at the same time.

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