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The moment you get more concerned with local hard drive space than ones on cloud is the moment you win the lottery. What am I missing? Why pay for cloud space for deleted realm? Store it on hard drive and take it out of realm list is what you want
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I'll be paying for persistent storage with the cloud service. I assume that anything on my hard drive can and will be lost the next time it crashes.
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Export the entire realm to a file. Delete the realm from RealmWorks. When you later want to recover the realm: Create a blank realm in RealmWorks Import the file that you previously saved into that new realm. (The only caveat to this method is that at some future point in the time the format of the realm backup might change to such a degree that a really old realm backup file might no longer successfully import into RealmWorks. At least, not without performing some manual modification on the XML data inside the backup file.) Last edited by Farling; February 5th, 2017 at 12:20 PM. |
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People have done this and found out to their detriment that deleting from the cloud is very permanent. You do not want to find that a change in XML format leaves you with nothing or a corruption in the file loses your data. my Realm Works videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZU...4DwXXkvmBXQ9Yw |
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To be clear deleting the "local" data from your PC is fine. I have done this multiple times. But if you delete a realm from the cloud its "deleted" everywhere even from backups. Hero Lab Resources: Pathfinder - d20pfsrd and Pathfinder Pack Setup 3.5 D&D (d20) - Community Server Setup 5E D&D - Community Server Setup Hero Lab Help - Hero Lab FAQ, Editor Tutorials and Videos, Editor & Scripting Resources. Created by the community for the community - Realm Works kickstarter backer (Alpha Wolf) and Beta tester.- d20 HL package volunteer editor. |
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He did a restore of the entire RealmWorks database, not an import of an unchanged XML export file into a new realm. The two things are very different. Performing a "Backup Database" and a "Restore Database" is very different to exporting a realm to an RWEXPORT file and then loading that RWEXPORT file into a new realm. |
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Of course, any change in the XML format would also mean that publicly available IMPORT files (such as the shared dungeon) would also not be importable.
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Agreed in part. The issue, I think, is that the response there implies that a deleted realm is retained to some degree on the server, and marked deleted. If that is the case, it MAY cause imports that contain the related UUIDs to fail. Personally, I would make a new Realm and test that before proceeding, just to be safe. |
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This is the reason why I think we are going to see ballooning of cloud storage, in addition to the non purging of deleted record space one of our other users noted.
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