Redirect only works on "Back up" and "Bidirectional"
Originalimoc opened this issue · comments
Ludusavi version
v0.21.0
Operating system
Windows
Installation method
Standalone
Description
If you choose "Restore" neither mode would recognize the redirection.
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Hi! Can you share your configured redirects and give an example of a game where it's not working? It works fine on my end.
For example, I have this game (restore mode):
Then I configure a redirect:
When I re-scan the game in restore mode, it shows the redirected paths:
When I restore it, the folder and files are created at the new location:
Huh.....
My understanding is first redirect input is what's path actually on disk, second input is what's on the mapping.yaml, then configured accordingly and it works in Bidrectional mode I'm using because I sync accross 2 Win + 1 Linux.
This understanding to me is natural but seems, wrong?
For a restore redirect:
- The first input is where it was originally backed up from
- The second input is where you'd like it to be restored to
There are some more notes and examples here: https://github.com/mtkennerly/ludusavi#redirects
Then how can make sense of bidirectional when restore and backup both field mean different thing?
- In backup mode, a bidirectional redirect behaves like a backup redirect, with the same field order.
- In restore mode, a bidirectional redirect behaves like a restore redirect, with the fields reversed.
In other words:
- Backup redirect: When we back up a file from [source], we back it up as if it were from [target] instead
- Restore redirect: When we restore a file that was backed up from [source], we restore it to [target] instead
- Bidirectional redirect:
- When we back up a file from [source], we back it up as if it were from [target] instead
- When we restore a file that was backed up from [target], we restore it to [source] instead
([source] is the first field, and [target] is the second field)