Save keyboard settings in the cloud

[Quantum of Blackness]

For the umpteenth time, I'm already faced with the fact that I have to re-create the entire keyboard. Believe me, I have a lot of these settings. I had to restore Windows 10 because it did not work well recently. And so I go into the game and all the keyboard settings are knocked down. You must be kidding, I think? The game has a lot of different keyboard settings, and you'll have to spend half an hour remembering which settings I had, because on standard I can not play. There is a very good game with the Owervatch name pad, where I can safely come to the second computer and I do not have to redirect the keyboard, because all these settings are in the cloud. Do you seriously find it difficult to store 1 KB of keyboard configurations in the cloud ??? Well, what's so complicated about this? Very much I ask to pay attention to this problem as having faced it once again I simply wanted to play T_T

 

[Dommarraa]

Mine IS stored on the cloud. Google Drive.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

I'd argue that keyboard bindings being stored remotely is an exception and not a rule. (but i agree it would be nice for Elite, considering)

But you can backup your keybindings locally.

Im using windows 7, The path is no doubt a little different for windows 10. but the principle is the same.

C:\Users\YOUR PROFILE\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings = *.BINDS

This has saved me before from the headache of a rebind.

 

[Just Call Me Dave]

Do you seriously find it difficult to store 1 KB of keyboard configurations [in the cloud/somewhere safe] ??? Well, what's so complicated about this?

I would ask yourself the questions quoted if you find you are having to redo your keybinds that often.

 

[furrycat]

Im using windows 7, The path is no doubt a little different for windows 10. but the principle is the same.

No, it's the same.

However you should access it via %LOCALAPPDATA%\Frontier Developments etc etc etc.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

If you're playing through Steam, then I'd say the ability to use Steam Cloud to back up the bindings file automatically would be good.

If you're using the standalone launcher, I'd have to say it's your responsibility to make your own backups.

 

[Sylveria]

Would be nice not only to have Cloud Save (We have CMDR Save Data, shouldn't be that far of a stretch) and to be able to do "Save As" profile settings so when we change it up, we don't have to keep going back to default and rebind everything.

 

[CMDR Pugwash]

I have a powershell script that makes a copy for me. I'd be happy to share it with anyone who wants it.

 

[Jimbodiah]

I would ask yourself the questions quoted if you find you are having to redo your keybinds that often.

I reformat my PC at least 3-4 times per year just to clean up or when placing a new SDD etc. It's only 1-2 hours work so no big deal. Reinstalling Elite means I have to find out that the keybindings are not saved and I can't fly my ships, or do any of the things I have bound to keys.

So, yes; saving keybinds would be a basic function to ED that improves quality of life by a lot for people.

 

[Quantum of Blackness]

If you're playing through Steam, then I'd say the ability to use Steam Cloud to back up the bindings file automatically would be good.

If you're using the standalone launcher, I'd have to say it's your responsibility to make your own backups.

I'm using steam

 

[Quantum of Blackness]

Mine IS stored on the cloud. Google Drive.

manually save so much more fun?

 

[shadragon]

manually save so much more fun?

I tell all my users (and it is company policy) from day one of employment to assume their hard drive is going to fail at some point. Anything not in their backup will be lost forever and it is on them to save important files and documents onto their network backup folders.

Had an accountant lose a HD three days before a Board of Directors meeting. They had several hundred Excel spreadsheets on their desktop alone. Their backup folder had a single file containing a Chicken Marsala recipe.

If you don't know in this day and age to backup important files that are a pain in the butt to recreate, there's nothing anyone can do for you. We call it PEBCAK in IT. Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

 

[furrycat]

Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.

This problem exists in your IT department.

Users don't care about backups. Users don't care that hard drives fail. You can tell them over and over again to back up their stuff and they won't do it. Then when their drive does fail and they lose their data they will throw a big hissy fit and blame you, because they think that computers are just tools and there is a whole team of people employed to take care of those tools.

And they will be right.

Scheduled backup software is easy to install and configure. Remote deploying said software on to users' machines is easy to do.
Saying "silly user I told you that you'd lose all your work" is not the answer. What you want to be saying is "don't worry, Mr accountant, your spreadsheets were automatically backed up. I'll have them back to you in no time at all and you can go off to your meeting."