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you could set up a secondary file location and use anyplace you like. we do that for the user community data file for d20 3.5. we use the web, but you should be able to use a dropbox if you have the access.
From inside of HL go to the HELP and go to the HL Manual. There is a section in the web pages it takes you to that explains how to override the different HL locations.More specifically, I want to be able to place my user data files in my Dropbox folder to make it easier to maintain across all three of my Hero Lab licenses.
From inside of HL go to the HELP and go to the HL Manual. There is a section in the web pages it takes you to that explains how to override the different HL locations.
In example I have my portfolios be saved in \Documents\DnD\Characters 3.5\Hero Lab. Instead of My Documents\Hero Lab.
Basically their are special set of values you put into the HL Short cut to tell it to use different locations. I don't know what they are without looking myself but that is where I found how to override the Portfolio locations and I am pretty sure I saw one for data sets also.
Folder Locations
By default, Hero Lab keeps its files in three places. They are:
Install Folder – Where Hero Lab is installed. By default, this will be something like "C:\Program Files\Hero Lab". You pick this when you install the product.
Program Data Folder – Where Hero Lab keeps its data files. This will be something like "C:\ProgramData\Hero Lab" on Windows 7, or "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Hero Lab" on Windows XP/Vista.
User Data Folder – This is different for each windows user, and will typically be something like "My Documents\Hero Lab" (note that "My Documents" is a different folder for each windows user).
To find these folders on your computer, go to the Tools menu within Hero Lab, choose the "Explore Folder" option, and then pick the folder you want to investigate.
You can change these locations by using command line parameters. Parameters must be separated by spaces; to use a space within a parameter, enclose the parameter in "double quotes". Here are a list of the parameters you can use:
-dataroot=path – If this parameter is present, Hero Lab treats the specified folder as its "Program Data Folder" - it will look for data files, custom output types, skins, and more under this folder.
For example, the command line C:\HeroLab\HeroLab.exe -dataroot="c:\some folder\HeroLab data stuff" would make Hero Lab look for data files in "c:\some folder\HeroLab data stuff\data".
-userroot=path – If this parameter is present, Hero Lab treats the specified folder as its "User Data Folder" - it will look for saved portfolios under this folder.
For example, the command line C:\HeroLab\HeroLab.exe -userroot="c:\some folder\my hl files" would make Hero Lab copy new saved portfolios into "c:\some folder\my hl files\portfolios".
-root=path – This is the equivalent of using both "-dataroot=path -userroot=path".
You might want to change these if you had two versions of Hero Lab installed (using a different root folder for each), or if you wanted to keep all Hero Lab data in a specified folder so you could back it up easily.
When installing a new version of Hero Lab, the data files, custom output types, etc, are all installed to the locations used the last time you ran Hero Lab.