Can I share strategies between 2 PCs? (+Dropbox)
Author: pestocat2
Creation Date: 5/18/2018 12:47 AM
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pestocat2

#1
I use 2 PCs, can I share strategies between them.
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Eugene

#2
Sure you can. The Strategies folder can be mapped to a network drive (which can also be a NAS, a pen drive in your router's USB port etc.) It's explained in the Wealth-Lab User Guide > Reference > Dialogs > Strategy Explorer > Network Paths to Strategies.

Or as Cone suggests here in post #2 (How to relocate WL files' default location?):

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or even better, use Dropbox. It doesn't change the built-in Data\Strategies location, but if you put all your personal strategies in a Dropbox folder, they're backed up automatically.
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Cone

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This probably deserves a Wiki article.

If the idea is to create a common, shared folder for multiple users, a shared network drive works quite well with Network Paths to Strategies

Dropbox will work to the extent in which you can share the Strategies, but multiple users won't be able to save the same Strategy. That's because Dropbox is duplicated in a User's account and the local network path name differs by the username. This is a problem when saving a Strategy if the path doesn't match the NetworkDrivePath field in the Strategy's xml file.

Sharing your entire Strategies folder on Dropbox
If you have the same Username on two computers, you can do this using symlinks. Here's how:
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Finally, sharing folders on Dropbox can be accomplish for different Usernames as well, but the process is a little more complicated and requires editing the NetworkDrivePath field in existing Strategy's xml files. If you require this, let me know.
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pestocat2

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Eugene,
Thank you, that works very well.
Gary
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