Moving to a new comp

[Tubthumper 499]

Okay, so I am still gonna run SC4 on my pokey laptop sometimes, but when I am stuck at home due to weather, I would prefer to run it on my main rig.  Couple questions though, maybe some people can help out...

1) I installed the game itself on my D: drive (as my main C: drive is a slower HDD and not an SSD, plus C: only has 5.20GB free space on it).  However, if I understand correctly, all plugins have to be in the C:\Users\[user name]\SimCity 4\Plugins location.  Is there a way to change this to go into the D: drive, or if it is easier, would a shortcut from the location on D: into this location work?

2) Any other tips to easily make a "mirror" from one computer to another computer? My plan is to just be able to copy my region I am working on onto an external hard drive and rewrite the region on whatever computer I happen to be using.  I really don't want reinstall all plugins if I don't have to.  I tried copying my SimCity4 data from my laptop onto my computer.  Brown boxes everywhere! 

[City_Slider 2,716]

Mayday... Mayday... your Help is needed @rsc204 i´m not "Wake" enuff, to help him right know. Could you take it over please?

-Oliver

[rsc204 21,808]

38 minutes ago, Tubthumper said:

I installed the game itself on my D: drive (as my main C: drive is a slower HDD and not an SSD, plus C: only has 5.20GB free space on it).

One of the key benefits of an SSD is running the OS on it, that way it will not only startup/shutdown much quicker, but everything in the OS is more responsive. C having just 5GB space may not be ideal too, since Virtual Memory needs to run in this space, although the actual allocation, usually 2x the Installed RAM is reserved so will be included in that that figure.

41 minutes ago, Tubthumper said:

Is there a way to change this

Absolutely, you can add a command and specify where you want Plugins/Regions to be kept:

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From this article by Catty:

Code: (Change Path)

-UserDir:path

Specifies the directory where the users game directory is. If the default subdirectories of "Regions\", "Plugins\", and "HTTPCache\" arn't found, then it creates an instance of, (in the case of Regions, it copies the default set over). The default game data directory defaults to being the same directory as the game installation directory. Quotes are necessary if the path name has spaces. Make sure there is a "\" on the end of your path or it creates directories like "testPlugins\" and "testRegions\"

 

45 minutes ago, Tubthumper said:

Any other tips to easily make a "mirror" from one computer to another computer?

The simplest method would be to sync the contents between networked computers, although if you have a OneDrive (or other Microsoft account), you can use OneDrive to handle this automatically. Everything inside the OneDrive folder will be synced with the cloud, including your Regions. If you set the User Dir path on both machines to a OneDrive folder, provided you sync everything first, it would be as if two computers were sharing the same folder, i.e. it's contents are always identical on both machines.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Thanks Robin.