Tom T12345 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 trying to do some of the seqencing at work, then access it from a different computer at home. Is this possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scud2 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Save it to a flash drive...I back all my stuff up on a flash drive! Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpageler Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 For each sequence (ie xxx), you copy the xxx.las (automated) or xxx.lms (musically) file. This is usually in the user/lightorama/sequence folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sticks4legs Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 If you are talking about doing it via remote connection it is possible but I have found there can be some lag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Get yourself a free Dropbox account. Then, copy the music you're using to that location and when you next save a sequence, save it to the same Dropbox folder. You can easily acess both the audio and sequence file from there, regardless of which computer you're using. (The first time you open an existing sequence file from Dropbox, you'll have to re-direct LOR to where you have the music file.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 I have use thumb drives and also Google Drive. These days generally I just use Google Drive since after every sequencing session, I copy the last version to Google Drive anyway. When at an other location, just log into my Google account, and copy the file to whatever computer I'm using. when done for the day, copy the latest version back to Google Drive. Note, that the new version will ALWAYS have a new filename, so it's easy to tell which version is newer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Simmons Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 8 hours ago, k6ccc said: Note, that the new version will ALWAYS have a new filename, so it's easy to tell which version is newer. This tip has made my life so much easier. Because I've sequenced from 3 different PCs, sometimes all in the same day, more than once have I found myself opening an older version of a sequence I'm working with. After seeing Jim's naming advice two or three years ago, I've never since been confused or misled which is my newest version of a given sequence. Jim, please accept my belated thanks for that great piece of advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 1 hour ago, George Simmons said: Jim, please accept my belated thanks for that great piece of advice! Why Thank You George! You are very welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmienLightFan Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 I sequence on my main PC and my Surface Pro all the time. I use Google Drive. The synchronization is so fast it takes seconds, if I have not made any huge changes. I ran my show from Google Drive last year. Any change I make would be on the lights next time the sequence plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightingnewb Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 +1 on Google Drive. Personally, I use Google Drive for all things related to LOR. I even organize it by song. Since my show is run off of a separate computer, I have to have everything synchronized - LMS files, visualizations, LEE files, LCC files, etc. I work and save on my PC, then go do an update in the folder on Google Drive. The Google Drive offers "file versioning, so I can drop the newest version (say something bad would ever happen where I lose a file), and easily get older versions if necessary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpageler Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 Thanks for the googleplay tip. Will be upgrading show computer to one with internet and will check googleplay out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmienLightFan Posted November 22, 2016 Share Posted November 22, 2016 10 hours ago, lightingnewb said: +1 on Google Drive. Personally, I use Google Drive for all things related to LOR. I even organize it by song. Since my show is run off of a separate computer, I have to have everything synchronized - LMS files, visualizations, LEE files, LCC files, etc. I work and save on my PC, then go do an update in the folder on Google Drive. The Google Drive offers "file versioning, so I can drop the newest version (say something bad would ever happen where I lose a file), and easily get older versions if necessary. I organise it by song too. The media file, sequence and XLights LCBs all go in there. I had my first ever close call with a huge sequence a few weeks ago, when I pasted something over everything, then saved, but thanks to Google Drive's previous versions, all is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichi Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Hey guys, i have tried this too but failed in some areas If i update any of the props in PE they save locally being the LOR folder is local only to my pc. I use google drive to save the sequences but i notice if i play back from another pc some of the effects i made in SE or SS don't play in PE almost as if its trying to read from another local file to play that part of the sequence that i don't have on goole drive. is there a way to get everything to only be on google drive and have LOR on both pc's always read from there vs using the local LOR folder un /documents/LOR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k6ccc Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Brichi, I don't use PE so I don't know how or if it stores parts of the data separately from the actual sequence file. For SuperStar and Sequence Editor, you can get by with only the sequence file (.sup for SS, and .las or .lms for SE). For SE, there is also file that saves the state of SE (zoom levels, etc) but that is NOT required. As I recall, that is a .lsv filename (don't hold me to that as I'm on my phone right now).As for the suggestion to play your show from an internet file location (Dropbox, Google Drive, etc), I do not recommend that. Do you really want your show to barf because you internet went down, or hickupped? Or maybe just your visiting grandkid tying all your bandwidth watching YouTube? I got burned (sort of) a few years due to that. For Halloween, I only do a simple show (the lights are a background animation sequence, and the music files are music only with no lights). A couple years ago, my son who is really into Halloween created a large playlist on Google because he did not like my music selection. So I jest ran the animation, and the music was coming from a PC playing the Google playlist. About an hour into the evening, my DSL started dropping once in a while. A while later it was dropping out badly enough that we stopped his Google playlist and went back to a show with my music files.Sent from my phone using Tapatalk, so blame any typos on Android! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brichi Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Thanks K6CCC, i thought the same thing after i posted this, bad idea in case internet goes down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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