Chat logs between 2 computers

[Becabecca]

I wonder what happens if you save chat history to a new pc and go back to the first without changing settings? Can chat logs be saved on another pc than the one you are currently logged into when the settings were set to the other pc? Maybe my question is silly, I just want to know if its possible for chats to go to another pc

[MoiraKathleen]

I think that the settings are in the viewer, so when you install the viewer on the new PC, it will have the default settings - and it would not know about the settings you have in another installation of the viewer on a different PC.

[ellestones]

like @moirakathleen says, the chat log path can be set to a drive which is accessible from any device which has network permissions to access that drive.  Maybe a person with more network experience will reply soon on how to set this up

i can see why you might want to do something like this. Like you want to save all chat logs to your main computer, and be able to read/write the logs also from your laptop and/or phone chat app

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

You can also use a utility such as Windiff to compare two directories on two machines and copy changed/new files to and fro so that each machine ends up with an identical set of files. This will work even when the two machines have different paths to where they store the chat logs.

[Drakonadrgora Darkfold]

Question: were you wanting to share the logs between the two computers? Or were you just curious if they were automatically shared between computers? For the latter the answer is no. they would not be shared, since they are stored on two seperate machines not talking with each other by any special means. Toward the former it can be done by various means and is not really hard to set up.

You could use a NAS and have both machines set to store the logs in the same folder on the NAS. Of course the NAS would need to be open to the outside world if both machines were not on the same network.

You could also probably set up a backup system where it backs up the logs every hour to an online location from both machines. thus you could view the log from either machine online at any time as long as they had successfully completed the backup as scheduled.

There might be other ways as well depending upon what you were wanting.

[Jennifer Boyle]

An easy, low-tech way to do it would be to change to location of the logs within the viewer to a flash drive and move it between computers.

[Ethan Paslong]

On 1/7/2019 at 7:34 PM, Drakonadrgora Darkfold said:

You could use a NAS and have both machines set to store the logs in the same folder on the NAS. Of course the NAS would need to be open to the outside world if both machines were not on the same network.

 

9 hours ago, Jennifer Boyle said:

An easy, low-tech way to do it would be to change to location of the logs within the viewer to a flash drive and move it between computers.

Not tried it, but perhaps set your chatlog location at a cloud? ... many people have such location now, if storing and connection are OK it might be possible.
If it works you only need to adjust the locations to the same on both machines.

[Drakonadrgora Darkfold]

On 1/24/2019 at 12:53 AM, Ethan Paslong said:

 

Not tried it, but perhaps set your chatlog location at a cloud? ... many people have such location now, if storing and connection are OK it might be possible.
If it works you only need to adjust the locations to the same on both machines.

That might work but it might be laggy on save and load for each chat, depending upon the users connection to the cloud storage service. Using a nas is just a little less laggy since everything should be on the same general network.

You can set a nas up to work as a cloud based storage system too if you didnt want to trust a third party storage system to keep your information safe and secure and private.

[Aimee Tison]

On 1/24/2019 at 1:53 AM, Ethan Paslong said:

 

Not tried it, but perhaps set your chatlog location at a cloud? ... many people have such location now, if storing and connection are OK it might be possible.
If it works you only need to adjust the locations to the same on both machines.

Would setting the chatlog location to something like OneDrive work? I’m going between a desktop and laptop and would like to keep the chat threads synced for consistency. 

[Pamela Galli]

I keep logs in Dropbox, so I can access from any computer anywhere.

[Adelaide Noelle]

Pamela, how exactly do you do that? I have Dropbox set up, but I'm not sure how to get Firestorm to pull from Dropbox specifically. 

[Jennifer Boyle]

On 4/16/2019 at 10:58 AM, Pamela Galli said:

I keep logs in Dropbox, so I can access from any computer anywhere.

Like Adelaide, I would very much appreciate your sharing specifics about how to make that work.