minecraft on 2 PC's. save question

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Hi all, a little help for someone that knows very little about minecraft please.

We've recently upgraded my 7 YO son to the full version after playing PE for a while. He's only allowed single player creative mode for now so reducing worries about safety.

However, since it's the school holidays he's spending a fair bit of time over at my mum's so I was thinking of installing it over there as well (if it'll play on her machine!). I read that this is possible as long as it's only in use on one PC at a time, but how do you go on about game saves? Would I have to sync the folder on both machines (it's possible) or are they synced online when he logs into the account?

Thanks.
 
You can install on both machines and just play on one at once as you've already guessed.

Saves won't be automatically sync'd but you could use something like dropbox to do this for you.
 
Very easy if you have a USB drive handy but this will only copy the settings and saved games over etc. It won't sync.

Start menu > Run

%appdata%

Copy the .minecraft folder, put it in the same location on the other PC and setup a shortcut for minecraft. Done.

The only way I can think of making them sync would be to install Dropbox on both PCs and setup the .minecraft folder as one of the dropbox folders. The saved games etc are simply flat files so it should work fine.

The alternative would be to have a small trusted server you want him to play on, but at 7 years old I can understand why you'd rather avoid that :)

edit: Beaten by the tart of french, next time I'm not answering the phone mid post :P
 
Thanks guys.

I was hoping it would be automatic but sadly it looks like it isn't.

Copying to a USB at the end of each session would be the easy way for me I guess but I need to make it granny proof :D I'm already backing up the folder regularly to dropbox and my server so I'm sure I can work something out.
 
automatic would be on a server, which you want to avoid. you could make a private server but you'd need a PC running all the time to facilitate him connecting to it.
 
Halfmad said:
automatic would be on a server, which you want to avoid. you could make a private server but you'd need a PC running all the time to facilitate him connecting to it.
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Would a HP Microserver be up to the job? I have one running WHS 2011 as a back up / file sharing server.
 
you can login to the same account multiple times as long as you join different servers on each account (or play SP)
 
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