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EnderCrypt

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moving dwarf fortress files
« on: November 19, 2012, 02:35:26 pm »

hi everyone.. hm.. couldnt find any technical difficulty forum, anyways, i have a question :)
i was thinking, you know, moving DF to my usb, however, when i start to create a world, offloading units goes very slow, and the game frezzes at synchronizing folders, do anyone know how to solve this?

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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2012, 02:54:44 pm »

That has nothing to do with the location of your files.  I suppose if you corupted you data by copy/pasting without deleting...

But nope, make smaller worlds/download them from dffd
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2012, 02:59:38 pm »

corrupted.. hm.. maybe its my usb.... , well thanks for the help :)
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2012, 03:01:33 pm »

Delete all DF data, and evn format if nothing else is present. But..
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2012, 03:26:57 pm »

When creating a world, you're saving megabytes of data over USB. That will take some time.
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2012, 03:42:23 pm »

It always takes a while for me to off-load a world, and I don't uses USB. Sometimes my computer warns me that the program's frozen during that! but as long as it don't crashes ( usually due to memory issue ) it'll get there eventually. Though I don't know how USB would act with that kind of thing, being aware of flash chips' write being much slower than read speed.
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2012, 04:29:37 pm »

It's probably just a slow USB connection. Personally if I'm using something like dropbox or a USB to move DF around I find the best thing to do is copy DF onto the target computer, run DF from the computer itself, and then copy back when I'm done. It removes the requirement for the game to constantly be uploading/downloading from your USB.
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Re: moving dwarf fortress files
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2012, 03:46:20 am »

yeah, copying all files to target computer works, and yeah, its problably a slow usb connection, offloading units goes like... 10 each time, and on target computer it jumps 100 each frame, and doesent stop responding at sync folders
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