3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
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3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
Hello, on my system, there are 3 such dirs (in parens: path by me):
- The one we can find from main menu via the {i} icon (/usr/share/games/wesnoth/1.14).
- One together with UMC game data (/home/me/.config/wesnoth-1.14/data/wesnoth-1.14.5)
- Finally one at the top of my home/ (/home/me/wesnoth-1.14.5)
Re: 3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
The first is the game data directory, second is the user data directory and third seems like something you created.
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Re: 3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
For me, that third directory would be here I originally downloaded and built the executable.
I forked real life and now I'm getting merge conflicts.
Re: 3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
I know about game & user daya directories. My question was about whether it is normal that the user data directory holds all the mainline game data, exactly like (copied form) the core game directory? I thought the user directory should hold only UMC game data.
About the third one, I have no idea, but certainly I did not copy all that there (for what reason?). If I'd need regular acces to mainline game code (for instance to learn how special things are coded), then I'd just make a bookmark in my file manager . PS: I am close to 100% sure because this dir has the name of the latest stable version for my system (1.14.5), to which I only upgraded recently (because the system update often crashes): I have a very bad, but if I had done that during the last few days, I would still remember. [And Why would I add the version name?)
Re: 3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
No, that's not normal. But...
Why does your system update often crash? If your Linux distro's core application is unstable and Wesnoth has problems for you that aren't being reported by anyone else then I think the diagnosis has to start with the assumption that it's probably something wrong with your system.
Why does your system update often crash? If your Linux distro's core application is unstable and Wesnoth has problems for you that aren't being reported by anyone else then I think the diagnosis has to start with the assumption that it's probably something wrong with your system.
Re: 3 directories of core Wesnoth game data
It's Lubuntu (a light version of Ubuntu). I like it, but half of the big version updates crash (and there are ramping, repetitive system bugs). Since the only remedy is to save all my data, and I'm pretty lazy and hate to just wait, I usually update late . I did it last time 3 weeks ago, reason why I'm rather sure I did not create those folder copies myself. Yet another mystery.octalot wrote: ↑November 10th, 2019, 11:13 am No, that's not normal. But...
Why does your system update often crash? If your Linux distro's core application is unstable and Wesnoth has problems for you that aren't being reported by anyone else then I think the diagnosis has to start with the assumption that it's probably something wrong with your system.
But I cannot imagine why/how a system bug would produce "phantom" copies of Wesnoth data.