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I'm building a portable gaming machine this week for when I'm away from home, and it'd be handy to have my game save files sync reliably and consistently between them.

I want to avoid doing this via Steam (which doesn't work with all games and isn't reliable enough) or Drop Box.

I'll be bouncing between both machines fairly often so I'd also like to avoid manually having to transfer saves each time.

So I'm looking at the best way to sync game save files, from various folders, back onto various (respective) folders between both machines. Any help would be much appreciated
 
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James Mason
If they're windows 10 or 8 machines you can use One Drive to create symbolic links between the save game folders and a location on OneDrive and then whenever OneDrive syncs it will sync the save games.


Computer 1, game save source
In Command Prompt:
Code: 
mklink /J “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII” “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\OneDrive\DarkSoulsIII”

Computer 2, game save sync
In Command Prompt:
Code: 
mklink /J  “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\OneDrive\DarkSoulsIII” “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII”

In this example I used Dark Souls III, but each game will save it's game in a different location.

First Line is file "origin". Either from computer 1s save location, or computer 2s one drive.
Second line is the...
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If you know the files that need transferring you could use simple XCopy commands in a batch file. One of the options is to only copy files that are newer than the destination. If you placed a copy of the batch file on both machines you could run them as desired
 
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Not bad. Looked into it some more and came across Bittorrent Sync. Seems to do exactly what I need and I don't need to do anything once it's set up
 
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If they're windows 10 or 8 machines you can use One Drive to create symbolic links between the save game folders and a location on OneDrive and then whenever OneDrive syncs it will sync the save games.


Computer 1, game save source
In Command Prompt:
Code: 
mklink /J “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII” “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\OneDrive\DarkSoulsIII”

Computer 2, game save sync
In Command Prompt:
Code: 
mklink /J  “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\OneDrive\DarkSoulsIII” “C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII”

In this example I used Dark Souls III, but each game will save it's game in a different location.

First Line is file "origin". Either from computer 1s save location, or computer 2s one drive.
Second line is the destination. Either computer 1s one drive location, or computer 2s save game location.
 
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