Character Config Backup - Insufficient

[Krojack]

Honestly, their system is more of an off site back. It's not really that well done for using several computers with the same account keeping the same configs.

I use to do this with my home computer and laptop using Google Drive. I'll try to explain some how I did it.

My FF14 character configs are stored here: C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999
My local Google Drive that gets synced: D:\Google Drive\

Before continuing, BACKUP ALL FILES in your "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn"

1. Create somewhere on your Google Drive where you want to store the files. I used "D:\Google Drive\App-Data\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn"
2. Copy some or all the files from your FF14 configs to the Google Drive location. This can be used as a backup.

Now comes the tricky part. You will need to create a directory junction from your characters config fold to the one you copied to your Google Drive. To find out which one is for your character just look in each one for the latest time stamps on the files. Mine is "FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999".

1. Open a command prompt and go to "C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\"
2. Rename your characters folder to something like "FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999.backup" (you can do this in windows explorer if you wish.
3. Type the following in the command prompt making sure to replace the folder names with the ones your character uses.

mklink /J "FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999" "D:\Google Drive\App-Data\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999"

You should see the following: Junction created for FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999 <<===>> D:\Google Drive\App-Data\FINAL FANTASY XIV - A Realm Reborn\FFXIV_CHR0040000000A21999

You will need to do this on both desktop and laptop. Make sure you're not in FF14 while setting this up either.

A few notes for this setup:
- You need the Google Drive client installed for this to work.
- When you exit FF14, give the Google Drive client a few minutes to sync up the files before you shut your computer down.
- If your desktop and laptop both run at different resolutions then you CAN NOT sync the entire character data directory. This was my case as my home runs 2560x1440 and laptop was 1920x1080. This means where I placed my UI elements were all out of wack on my laptop. I ended up having to create junctions for only a few files. In short all BUT the "HOTBAR.DAT" and "ADDON.DAT". Here is what each file is.

I hope this helps some.