using two computers

[Donny M. Carter]

I have a desktop that I use for sequencing. Today someone gave me an older Dell that I have loaded the software onto. What I need to do now is get my sequences and music from my desktop to my laptop. Please explain the best way to do this. Also, can I use a USB to USB cable. Thanks for the help.
Donny

[Guest wbottomley]

Load the audio onto the pc in the same directory as the sequencing pc.

Then, open an account on dropbox.

After you finish sequencing, save a copy in the dropbox folder and have the show pc read from that directory.

[fxdwg]

i use 3 different computers. 1 show and 2 sequencing ones. the easiest way I have found, is i create a directory on each computer... C:LORData, then I tell the LOR software to use that directory for everything. (it will create the rest of the folders inside there for you... e.g. audio, sequences, etc.)

I then use a USB flash drive and simply drag and drop the entire c:LORdata folder wherever I am working.



good luck, and Merry Christmas!!

[Donny M. Carter]

I'm looking now..where do I go to tell LOR to use this directory

[Donny M. Carter]

Ok, so I bought a usb flash drive. I took the whole LOR file and put it on the the drive. After setting up the same folders and unloading the usb drive to my laptop I can see all sequences and audio if I go by-way my computer.. If I try and right click on LOR bulb in system tray, it does not see my existing sequences in the sequence editor. Please help!!

[BadSCR]

I have not tried these, Found them with a quick google.



http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbtrigsynctoy/

This app, monitors the USB bus and whenever a USB mass storage device is inserted it triggers a sync process. The sync process first checks to see if any of the removable drives have synctoy marker files, if so then it starts the sync process.





http://sourceforge.net/projects/quicksync/

Synchronize folders or files by just dropping them onto a panel. With options "Ask Before Replace", "Sync Sub Folders" and "Polling time". New drives are automaically detected and if there are any data to be synchronized the application will do so.

[vipzach]

Are you using XP? If so, copy the sequences into the sequences folder in "my documents" and the audio into the audio folder. C:Documents and Settingsuser nameMy DocumentsLight-O-Rama

[Scott T]

Donny M. Carter wrote:

I'm looking now..where do I go to tell LOR to use this directory

Go to your local hard drive, in the program file, under Light-O-Rama and run the LORPost.exe.

C:Program FilesLight-o-ramalorpost.exe

This will restart your setup process.

[chris waller]

Network um then it's cake just drag and drop with no USB just all over the network

[Tim Fischer]

I use Windows networking, which is sometimes a pain to set up but works well once you do.

Dropbox is a good solution if you have less than 2GB of stuff, or want to pay for more. Since I have videos, and don't want to pay, I can't use it (we use it a lot for work stuff though).

A USB keyfob is probably the most straightforward method.

It's far easiest to set up the EXACT SAME path on both machines for where your media files live. I use C:LORData (because I used to use a Win98 show machine and they had a different path to the user's document folder).

[Tim Fischer]

(double post, sorry!)

[Brian Mitchell]

I really like dropbox. Cool utility.