How can I keep two installations in sync?

[Lorenzo Martinelli]

Hello!

I wonder if somebody had a brilliant and fool-proof suggestion about this.

I have been keeping two Windows 7 installations of GIP in synch by
synchronizing the cache folder to a NAS folder on both computers using a
scheduled backup program.

However, at times, when changes are made to one computer, the other does
not pick it up until the backup program runs. While the procedure works,
it's not entirely reliable.

Is there a simple way to override GIP's default cache directory? If that
were possible, I could point both installations to the same NAS folder
and be done with.

--profile-dir <dir> does not seem to work in the options file (unless I
am doing something wrong)

Lorenzo

[Roger Bell_West]

Is there a simple way to override GIP's default cache directory? If that were
possible, I could point both installations to the same NAS folder and be done
with.
--profile-dir <dir> does not seem to work in the options file (unless I am
doing something wrong)

Looking at the source code, I guess --profiledir, or set the
environment variable GETIPLAYERUSERPREFS.

[Lorenzo Martinelli]

Post by Roger Bell_West

Is there a simple way to override GIP's default cache directory? If that were
possible, I could point both installations to the same NAS folder and be done
with.
--profile-dir <dir> does not seem to work in the options file (unless I am
doing something wrong)

Looking at the source code, I guess --profiledir, or set the
environment variable GETIPLAYERUSERPREFS.

Thanks!

So simple.

GETIPLAYERUSERPREFS works perfectly

I haven't tried --profiledir yet,
It seems to differ from the notation --profile-dir specified in the Wiki
at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/options

Lorenzo