I'm losing work here...

John

Can the Gideros document data not be saved in in /var/folders/xn/6t_9j2717v78vnqp8g2j2cfc0000gn/T/ but somewhere local to the project instead?

Every so often this folder gets deleted and the path changes to some other random string.

I appreciate it is a temporary path.

Some context as to what my problem is...

My game has a built in editor and it saves the level data in JSON format stored in the document folder using |D|worldLevels.txt which happens to be located in the /var/folders/xn//T/gideros//documents/

I have to periodically remember to manually backup worldLevels.txt from this folder into another folder outside /var/....

If I don't do that, my Mac will eventually delete this temporary path and replace it with a new random 20 character string.

It seems to flush this path every now and again without any warning and that is my problem.

I went to make a drink came back and did some artwork, some browsing and then back to Gideros and found this path was deleted the next time I ran the player. I didn't even quit Gideros itself. I had a back up from the day before but I still lost 3 levels since then. I've lost more levels than I've created so far.

It also 100% flushes this path when I reboot the Mac. If I forget to backup worldLevels.txt before shutting down or the mac crashes that file is lost.

Eventually worldLevels.txt will be bundled within the app itself so it won't an issue. It is just an issue while I am developing.

hgy29

Yes, for QT player all folders are temporary. It could be changed to some non temp folder (for |D| and |R| at least) with added benefit of providing a backup of your own projects if you erase your working folder.
Drawback is, of course, files will be kept forever if you do not clean them up by yourself.

I can do the change, any thoughts others ?

John

Keeping it forever is far better than letting the OS delete it forever. It would be nice to have a fix to this problem. That if no one comes up with a valid reason as why it is best not to change it.

keszegh

in windows btw the folder does not seem to change nor is deleted any time, at least i never had such an issue.
also, in your app you can save your levels to some specific folder instead of |D| and then you are safe to go.

John

According to this documentation http://docs.giderosmobile.com/file_system.html there are no method to save to a specific folder. If I omit |D| part it defaults to |R| which happens to be read only. So, how do I save to a specific folder?

keszegh

lfs plugin should do the job.
https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/Lfs

John

It is now storing it outside the temporary folder - So there is no need to change the way it currently works. Thanks for your help.

hgy29

Changed already anyway

MoKaLux

keszegh said:

in windows btw the folder does not seem to change nor is deleted any time, at least i never had such an issue.
also, in your app you can save your levels to some specific folder instead of |D| and then you are safe to go.

As keszegh here on win10

hgy29 said:

Yes, for QT player all folders are temporary. It could be changed to some non temp folder (for |D| and |R| at least) with added benefit of providing a backup of your own projects if you erase your working folder.
Drawback is, of course, files will be kept forever if you do not clean them up by yourself.

I can do the change, any thoughts others ?

Good move so mac behave as win

MoKaLux

John said:

According to this documentation http://docs.giderosmobile.com/file_system.html there are no method to save to a specific folder. If I omit |D| part it defaults to |R| which happens to be read only. So, how do I save to a specific folder?

Please note that this is also available in the wiki https://wiki.gideros.rocks/index.php/File_system