I'm using Windows 7 and have a second computer with a similar directory structure, but with different drive letters. I want to use my favorites on both computers by syncing the Director Opus folder (in ...\AppData\Roaming\GPSoftware\Directory Opus). With the same drive letters, it isn't a problem. But as there a way to either:
a) Use a macro and replace the drive letter with a value depending on the computer?
b) Edit the favorites.osv file manually and copy the favorites to a new branch with a different drive letter? Note that I tried this but it didn't work correctly (my favorites disappeared). It looks like an xml format.
One way is to create environment variables on each machine so you can use things like %MYDRIVE% to mean D:\ on one machine and E:\ on another (or whatever you need), then edit favourites.osv and replace the drive letters with %MYDRIVE% so you get a different result on each machine.
If the drives have consistent labels between machines, you could use those to refer to the paths instead, removing the need to create environment variables. (The Aliases page explains how you can use things like /$MyDrive to refer to the drive with label "MyDrive" in a path.)
Thanks. I'll try using environment variables. On one computer the drive is called "OS" (it's the C drive). On the other computer, it's the D drive, and I don't really want to relabel the drive called "OS" since it could cause problems.
When I tried editing favorites.osv before, I was very careful about the structure, but it still resulted in all my favorites being lost. Luckily I had a backup.