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Bill L
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I have the full paid version of The Second Sky Can I put it in Dropbox and play it from different computers
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If your player file is in the cloud, this may be theoretically possible, but the application may want to store other files locally like installed holds and settings.

You’d probably have a better time keeping the game installer on Dropbox and installing it locally on each computer you use.

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06-17-2019 at 09:12 PM
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This works as long as you have a datapath.txt in your DROD folder with this line:
.\Data;.\Data;

This tells DROD to store everything in its own folder so it's portable.

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Bill L wrote:
I have the full paid version of The Second Sky Can I put it in Dropbox and play it from different computers
I would have predicted it wouldn't work.

But it sounds like I'm wrong!

I would be careful not to have DROD running on two computers simultaneously though. That seems very risky for corrupting data.

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