Oops

Here's a tip for you.

If you use Cura, don't put any valuable files in the Cura directory, because if you ever uninstall it, for example to upgrade the version, it erases everything in that directory tree.

Lesson learned. All the configuration files, scripts and command files that I had constructed to make that program work better are now history. Maybe I should file a bug, or submit a patch, but there are bigger issues with Cura than a flawed uninstall strategy.

Git on GDrive

I need to get stuff backed up. I've been programming too long without a net now. By that I mean I should be using Source Control Management (SCM) or at least some sort of Revision Control (RC) besides copying files to a thumb drive every so often.

I could push the projects to github or sourceforge, but then they would be public and I don't think I'm ready for that yet.

You can pay a monthly fee to github of course, and get private storage, but does it sound like I'm the kind of person who would pay a monthly fee?

So anyway, if you want to push stuff to the cloud, and you're using Git, you can use GDrive as the data storage site (or others like dropbox) by following the instructions (google search for "git" and "google drive"), but only if you're using Linux. Here's the instructions when using Windows.

Make a directory in your Google Drive local directory to hold all your projects:
cd C:\Data Files\Personal\Google Drive
mkdir git
cd git

Make a directory for a project and initialize git there:
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" init myproject.git -–bare

Each project should be given a new directory (myproject.git is the directory in the above command).

Now change to the project working directory - where you work on it. Initialize git there (if you're not already using it) and establish a remote (called gdrive below) to the created project directory in the Google Drive directory:
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" init
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" remote add gdrive "file:///C:/Data Files/Personal/Google Drive/git/myproject.git"

Note the syntax for the file URL is the keyword file, a colon and 3 slashes. This is important, otherwise you get an error like:
ssh: file: no address associated with name

This directory will have all the build artifacts, so you will probably want to clean it up first, but then add all the files in it, commit, and post to the remote (GDrive):
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" add .
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" commit --message "First commit to GDrive"
"\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe" push gdrive master

When GDrive finishes syncing up the directory you're good to go.