Gideros Player storage location

totebo

When saving files to |D| on Mac and testing locally on Gideros Player, where are the files actually stored?

An issue that keep cropping up is that there appear to be multiple sets of each file, and the player sometimes loads different version of the same file.

I'm working on a challenge system, where the local file keeps track on progress. As you might imagine, this multiple file issue makes it hard to test!

SinisterSoft

I think there was code posted on the forum to delete all files...

totebo

Sounds like DANGEROUS code to me...

antix

That sounds odd. On windows I haven't seen it make any duplicate files as of yet. However, I'm still running 2016.6.

pie

I can confirm that on windows there is no such issue on 2016.08.2 too, but I don't know anything about Macs

totebo

Yeah, it feels like a strange caching issue probably related to Mac OS in some way. Would be good to fix, but hard to debug because it's hard to replicate consistently.

totebo

Does anyone know where the local files are stored, though? I've looked inside the player app folder, but no luck.

pie

I don't know if this is still valid, but I found something here:
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/469#Comment_469

also this thread may be useful
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/395/when-does-the-player-flush-its-document-directory/p1

On windows the |R| directory is in the same place as the |D| directory, maybe in Mac too.

SinisterSoft

On the mac I'd say your home folder, not the docs sub folder.

totebo

Thanks guys!

totebo

Found the temp directory by using this command in Terminal:

echo $TMPDIR

In my case, the files were found here:


If I remove them when Gideros Player is running, they magically get repopulated with previously saved data. So there are definitely copies of these files somewhere one the Mac. If I close Gideros Player down and remove them, fresh ones are created when I test the game.