So as the title hints, I had Halo CE in my dropbox folder at one point. Not just for storage or backup but for actual use!

Some people said it wasn't a good idea (half-rightfully so)

I had no major issues with it, except for the fact that windows kept changing all my files to some weird state of read-only, despite Guerilla\Sapien\Tool still being able to access and write files.

I got around this by disabling Dropbox Sync whenever I planned to be using those tools and HCE for some time. Naturally, having Dropbox disabled was not a perfect solution, as I still had to upload any changes to my fellow peers (mostly within CMT)

It seemed every time I restarted windows or Dropbox finished syncing files, I had to select my Halo Custom Edition folder and within the Properties panel, remove the blue square from read-only box, otherwise Dropbox would have to index 10k+ files every time I compiled a map. This only took about 10 minutes, but you can imagine some impatience when I finished compiling a tag that works and I can't upload it for distribution.

Other issues I encountered were that OS maps would crash unless the previously described read-only flags were unchecked (regular maps loaded fine)

OS_Tool would say it could not access the DATA-CACHE-FILE under the same circumstances (similar to what happens when compiling a map while it is loaded in Halo.)

Has anyone else ever attempted keeping Halo CE within their Dropbox folder?

What about using the Halo Custom Edition folder on multiple computers? I'd think this would make it very easy to keep your tag sets synchronized across multiple computers (which I'd love to do)


Leave your thoughts and opinions!

Unless they're stupid.

I should mention a few of the Pros:

- tag sets were always backed up

- I could send any tag to anyone near instantaneously

- potentially have the same tags across various devices

Apparently a large tags folder is prone to making dropbox spaz out when downloading it as a file (ask sali for details)

I didn't even know this was possible

I AM TAKING THE PLUNGE ONCE AGAIN.

I am using Windows 10 on my MBP for the gorgeous display and am considering moving my CMT development on to this computer.

Because Apple is stupid with their stupidly overinflated prices, I only have a 128GB SSD supplemented by a (significantly slower) 128GB SD card that is designed to seamlessly sit in the SD port. Windows 10 has a whopping 12.3 GB free in the C:\ drive, which is not enough for HCE and tagsets, and 3dsmax (of which I will soon be using 2017)

https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-JetDrive-Storage-Expansion-TS128GJDL350/dp/B00K73NT1C

It basically is my D:\ drive, but Windows 10 can't use it because it's formatted to Mac OS Journaled Extended (Because Mac OS spams disgusting .DS_STORE,._.~, and various other files on my dropbox, which can't be synced and causes all kinds of issues)

So my only choice is to use my external 2TB drive for installing Halo CE, Dropbox, and 3dsmax 2017.

At the moment, I am manually copying my dropbox folder from my gaming laptop to said external drive (I may be crazy, but I don't want to download 200GB if I can just copy it)

Windows is taking its sweet time to move the files with the 'cut\paste' commands within the same drive, but whatever.

So the experiment is basically this:
1. Test the tagsets within Dropbox and see if they keep synced across my two computers. If I run into that 'read only' error, I'll deal with it.

2. Make multiple backups of my dropbox folder in case things go LOL BORK.

3. legitimately and safely purchase a nice copy of newer Photoshop products for their high resolution display support (CS6 looks like ass) and pray that 3dsmax 2017 has high DPI support as well. (and that it works well with halo development in general; I'm still stuck in the ways of 3dsmax 8)

Wish me luck m8s

EDIT: I should mention that having my iTunes library on Dropbox was a great idea.
As an American, I shall take this great idea and sprinkle it onto everything.
Edited by Jesse on Jul 5, 2016 at 05:12 AM

I truly love Photoshop CS2, but it has the same issues as CS6 with the high res display (for me at least)


That might look fine for others, but imagine that image in a 13 inch display. The icons and such are very tiny.

Me and the mental team used bittorrent sync to sync our tag/data folders.

K.