File Sharing

[DedDanGames]

Hello!

A friend and I have been using VNM for a while now, but we have come to a point where we need to share the file between ourselves. We have tried uploading the game file to something like google drive, then downloading it, and then trying to launch it. However, it never works. It usually just crashes the program.

Is there any reliable way to share the same file so that we may pass it back and forth when we work on it?

Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

[◢ k r i s ◤]

Zip it first? Make an md5sum of the zip file before uploading and confirm the downloaded file md5sum matches? I mean that should be overkill - but it's how package managers generally work.

It's really hard to say what part of this is screwing up. Could be permissions. Could be data corruption (especially possible if you are downloading multiple files instead of one giant archive file or either one of you has bandwidth or connectivity issues).

[Rebecca Kalista]

I don't have much experience with Google Drive, but I occasionally pass files back and forth between my computers through Dropbox and I believe it works most of the time (admittedly I mostly work from a single computer so maybe I just haven't run in a problem yet).

What you need to be careful about is respecting a few "guidelines":
- Only one computer must open the project at any given time.
- Once a project has been opened, you need to consider it to be "condemned" for every other computer until it has successfully performed a full sync. Nobody else must open it during that time.
- A full sync is defined as every computer's Dropbox instance displaying "Up to date" as its status after saving (make sure to give every computer a few minutes to cross-reference each other).

Else, indeed, zip it first. It requires a lot of zipping and unzipping though, so I'd consider attempting the Dropbox thing first.