My Documents - DDO Settings Issue

[Kolvarg]

Greetings all,

I have a rather unique situation I hope you can help with. I am traveling a bit for work and have loaded the DDO software on my work laptop. :eek: It's OK, I am the IT Manager. ;)

Here is the issue, My Documents is a Syncronized copy from a server, But DDO does not seem to like that. When I was patching I had to rename the laucher directory inside My documents to get it to work (There was a posting about this), but now I have to redo my settings everytime I reboot. It does not remember my audio settings, my screen resolution, etc. :confused:

I was looking for a registry key to change the location from My Documents to a local folder, but to no avail.

Does anyone have a clue how to work around this? And please do not say to move My Documents to the local machine, that is not going to happen. There has to be a better way.

Thanks,

Kolvarg

[Impaqt]

Your Quest to save Time is going tolead to nothing but heartache....


Just install the client on the laptop and leave it at that. Trying to Transfer games over from one PC to another makes no sense.. THe amout of time your going to spend editing the registry and dealing with unknowns is going tobe more than the time it'll take to DL the updates.

[The_Silver_Griffon]

Try going to the install directory and editing the dndlauncher.exe.config file as follows:

change this line

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>
to this

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="%HOMEDIR%\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>
or make the value the exact unc path

Edit: This is an attempt to make DDO see your copy on the server.
You could also try changing the path to

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="C:\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>

[The_Silver_Griffon]

Your Quest to save Time is going tolead to nothing but heartache....


Just install the client on the laptop and leave it at that. Trying to Transfer games over from one PC to another makes no sense.. THe amout of time your going to spend editing the registry and dealing with unknowns is going tobe more than the time it'll take to DL the updates.

That's not what he's trying to do. What he is saying is that his Windows does not use a local My Documents folder. The home directory is defaulted to a network share on a server instead.

[Kolvarg]

Your Quest to save Time is going tolead to nothing but heartache....


Just install the client on the laptop and leave it at that. Trying to Transfer games over from one PC to another makes no sense.. THe amout of time your going to spend editing the registry and dealing with unknowns is going tobe more than the time it'll take to DL the updates.

I think you misunderstood my post. This is not what I am trying to do. Thanks anyway.

[Kolvarg]

Try going to the install directory and editing the dndlauncher.exe.config file as follows:

change this line

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>
to this

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="%HOMEDIR%\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>
or make the value the exact unc path

Edit: This is an attempt to make DDO see your copy on the server.
You could also try changing the path to

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="C:\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>

This sounds like what I was looking for. I made the change and will try tonight when I get back to the hotel. Thanks for your help.

[Karch]

Please let us know how this turns out for you, and if you need further assistance.

[Kolvarg]

Please let us know how this turns out for you, and if you need further assistance.

Glad to see a post from Tech Support

I tried the

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="C:\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>

Suggestion, and I get the following error: (Man I wish we could post pics in here)

Launch Error
System.NotSupportedException: The given path's format is not supported.
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.Canonical izePath(String path, Boolean need FullPath)
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.AddExpres sions(String str, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPa thList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor (FileIOPermissionAccess access, String pathlist, Booliean checkForDuplicates, Boolean need FullPath)
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo..ctor(String path)
at com.turbine.launcher.Main()

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can't believe that this has not come up before and I wouldn't think it is too hard to fix.

Thanks in advance.

[The_Silver_Griffon]

Ok. Wrong format for .NET I guess. I'll have to poke around some more.

Did you try the %HOMEDIR% one?

[Kolvarg]

Ok. Wrong format for .NET I guess. I'll have to poke around some more.

Did you try the %HOMEDIR% one?

Yes %HOMEDIR% did not work and I tried %SYSTEMDRIVE% as well with the directory at the root of C: and that did not work.

[The_Silver_Griffon]

I think I was barking up the wrong tree completely then.

Here's some barks up a completely different tree:

Does your .ini file in the Dungeons and Dragons Online folder not get updated? Or is it maybe missing completely?

The game should write changes to it when you exit. Maybe it is having trouble writing to the remote folder. Do you have explicit full control on your remote My Documents folder? Maybe .ini files are being excluded from synchronization.

Perhaps if you generate an .ini file somewhere else, like from home, and then paste it into the Dungeons and Dragons Online folder you could work around it. Or you could edit it manually and paste it in. You may have to drop it in before launching the game each time, though if its not synchronizing.

[Kolvarg]

OK, I am traveling again and I still cannot get this to work. The ini file does not get updated. I do have full rights and the files are stored locally when I am not on my network. I have no problems with other programs or files.

It would be great is Turbine could respond to this issue. It must have come up before.

How can I tell DDO to use a different location than My Documents to store and use my setttings?

Thanks.

[Kolvarg]

bump

[Akhad_Durn]

<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="C:\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>

Suggestion, and I get the following error: (Man I wish we could post pics in here)

Launch Error
System.NotSupportedException: The given path's format is not supported.
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.Canonical izePath(String path, Boolean need FullPath)
at System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.AddExpres sions(String str, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPa thList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, String pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList)
at System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission..ctor (FileIOPermissionAccess access, String pathlist, Booliean checkForDuplicates, Boolean need FullPath)
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo..ctor(String path)
at com.turbine.launcher.Main()


I think this exception is due to what you're trying to enter for the folder. You're trying to give it a fully qualified path, when it's requesting a folder name.

What its trying to do is this:


<My Documents Path> + "\" + Product.DocumentFolder

So if you look at what you're trying to give it, it would be:


c:\documents and settings\<username>\my documents\c:\dungeons and dragons online

This just isn't going to work since it isn't a valid path.

I think that this can be worked with\around by giving it something that is valid when added to the path.

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Try this:


<add key="Product.DocumentFolder" value="..\Dungeons and Dragons Online"/>

This should give you a valid path.


c:\documents and settings\<username>\my documents\..\dungeons and dragons online

Which is equivalent to:


c:\documents and settings\<username>\dungeons and dragons online