Question About Linux's "Hidden Torque Folder"
by Chris "DiGi" Timberlake · in General Discussion · 12/11/2003 (7:49 pm) · 3 replies
May i ask all of the linux developers and GG employee's one question . . .
Why the heck does Torque save files to a ". garage games" folder, why does it also hide the dso's there, and is there anyway to remove this "nice little feature" ?
Why the heck does Torque save files to a ". garage games" folder, why does it also hide the dso's there, and is there anyway to remove this "nice little feature" ?
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12/11/2003 (9:14 pm)
Stuff is put there because Unix is a multiuser system. So it's the Right Thing to do to keep all temporary files/savegames/etc in the user's directory, not a global one. (For instance, if root installs the game, but then some other users play it).
#3
Hope that helps.
12/12/2003 (8:56 am)
It's the way it should be chris, any unix application stores the user personal data in it's home dir under a hidden directory. If you want to disable it you can modify the conf.UNIX.mk makefile and remove -DUSE_FILE_REDIRECT from the flags, there's a comment in the makefile too. I advise against doing that unless it's just for development. I remove it to develop so that I can save the missions and new guis and simply commit them to my cvs instead of having to copy them over, etc, but for releases you have to re-enable that. And if you want to change the name of that directory edit platformX86UNIX.hHope that helps.
Torque Owner Harold "LabRat" Brown
www.garagegames.com/docs/torque.sdk/gstarted/compilers.unix.html
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