Issues with Exporting Light Shows [fixed]

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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby muscanto » 01 August 2022, 16:33

muscanto wrote:I figured out the bug. On Mac OS X, if you create a page and put a generator file in it that has a "\" in the path to the file, it gets put into live.ini as a ":" in the path. This doesn't seem to break the show the computer is on but it breaks when you export the show to another computer.

Can you please investigate this?



I had a folder called "Spot Fades/chases" that showed up in the live.ini file as "Spot Fades:Chases" this would be broken on the next computer that it was imported into.
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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby muscanto » 01 August 2022, 16:49

When you export a show? Does it copy the entire show directory or does it re-create?

I'm noticing that scenes and folders not directly called up in the show get left behind. This is partly why it's breaking.

If I have scene folders and generator folders in the show folder that are not in use or on a live board, they don't seem to go with the show when you export it.
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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby support » 02 August 2022, 09:19

On Mac OS X, if you create a page and put a generator file in it that has a "\" in the path to the file, it gets put into live.ini as a ":" in the path.

We are not able to reproduce that.
We created the folder "aaa" in ".../Generator/projects/" and from our software we saved the scene "scene" in the folder "aaa".
And the path is correctly written in "live.ini".
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Please tell us how you proceed to do that.
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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby muscanto » 02 August 2022, 11:39

Try creating a folder called "aa/a"
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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby support » 10 August 2022, 16:28

Yes, our software replaces "aa/a" by "aa:a".
This is because "/" is already used in the path name for the tree structure.
The other raison is Microsoft Windows does not allow "/" in folder names. This means a MacOS lightshow using this character can not be transported under Windows.

Please use only multi-OS friendly characters for folder names.
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Re: Issues with Exporting Light Shows

Postby muscanto » 12 August 2022, 01:32

That makes a lot more sense. I will try removing all of that and re-test.
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