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Hi

My son Eddy started playing Minetest on my account. I want to change it that is move his world over to his account on where I am going to get all his gaming set up.

We are using a new install of Arch Linux with a Cinnamon desktop.

Rob

What do you mean by account?
If you want to move a singleplayer world on another computer you don't need to do anything special.

I login as robert@acomputer I want him to login as edmund@acomputer ans play his game there but he has been playing it for 10 days logged in on my as me therefore the world and all that he has created must be in my home folder and not his.
Thanks for replying

sfan5 wrote:What do you mean by account?
If you want to move a singleplayer world on another computer you don't need to do anything special.

eddygray21 wrote:

sfan5 wrote:What do you mean by account?
If you want to move a singleplayer world on another computer you don't need to do anything special.

I login as robert@acomputer I want him to login as edmund@acomputer ans play his game there but he has been playing it for 10 days logged in on my as me therefore the world and all that he has created must be in my home folder and not his.
Thanks for replying

Move the world you want moved from /home/robert/.minetest/worlds to /home/edmund/.minetest/worlds.

Sounds easy, I´ll give it a try. Many thanks.

sfan5 wrote:

eddygray21 wrote:

sfan5 wrote:What do you mean by account?
If you want to move a singleplayer world on another computer you don't need to do anything special.

I login as robert@acomputer I want him to login as edmund@acomputer ans play his game there but he has been playing it for 10 days logged in on my as me therefore the world and all that he has created must be in my home folder and not his.
Thanks for replying

Move the world you want moved from /home/robert/.minetest/worlds to /home/edmund/.minetest/worlds.

Hi

I moved the worlds and copied over all the mods and get this error message
ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/edmund/.minetest/mods/skins/init.lua
Should I have installed all the mods again as opposed to just copying them over?
If I diff the two files they appear to be the same
I have changed the owner of the mods directory to edmund and now it crashes when the loading media is in progress.

eddygray21 wrote:Sounds easy, I´ll give it a try. Many thanks.

sfan5 wrote:

eddygray21 wrote:I login as robert@acomputer I want him to login as edmund@acomputer ans play his game there but he has been playing it for 10 days logged in on my as me therefore the world and all that he has created must be in my home folder and not his.
Thanks for replying

Move the world you want moved from /home/robert/.minetest/worlds to /home/edmund/.minetest/worlds.

eddygray21 wrote:

eddygray21 wrote:Sounds easy, I´ll give it a try. Many thanks.

sfan5 wrote:Move the world you want moved from /home/robert/.minetest/worlds to /home/edmund/.minetest/worlds.

Hi

I moved the worlds and copied over all the mods and get this error message
ERROR: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/edmund/.minetest/mods/skins/init.lua
Should I have installed all the mods again as opposed to just copying them over?
If I diff the two files they appear to be the same
I have changed the owner of the mods directory to edmund and now it crashes when the loading media is in progress.

Please post your debug.txt (you will find it in .minetest/debug.txt).

debug.txt It´s rather long. Thanks http://pastebin.com/1e7EcRSf

eddygray21 wrote:debug.txt It´s rather long. Thanks http://pastebin.com/1e7EcRSf

Ok, make sure the world folder is writeable.

I think I have largely solved this myself.

Get all the permissions right on the directories in worlds, that is the owner is the login where the .minetest directory is.I made the group users but it has a read only permission.
Make sure that the mods that don´t work are disabled in the configuration section of the launcher in the account where you have moved the worlds to.

I have just realised how hard it is to write coherent explanations in these forums.

Thanks

sfan5 wrote:

eddygray21 wrote:debug.txt It´s rather long. Thanks http://pastebin.com/1e7EcRSf

Ok, make sure the world folder is writeable.

I posted my last post before I saw this, Many thanks, you are right, it was a permissions problem. Obviously, if you change files from one account to another you have to sort out the permissions, I should know better.