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Is there any way I can get Arma to look for missions in a different folder than the default one when I launch a non-dedicated server? I'm thinking of doing something with symbolic links, but I can't figure out how to get it to work. I can get the editor to access different folders through symbolic links, but since the missions are in .pbo format, that doesn't help much.

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What about copying the pbos to armas mpmissions folder? Should be the easiest way.

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Thing is, I've got a setup where I'm sometimes using the office PC as a dedicated server, and I've saved the missions on a network drive; on the dedicated server, I've linked the mpmissions folder to the network folder that the missions are on. I'd prefer to keep things more flexible on my gaming PC so I can check and test missions more easily, so I wouldn't want to do the same on that computer, but neither would I want to need the office PC to be on all the time so I can access the mission repository on the network folder. Does this make any sense?

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You could set up 2 user profiles using the -profile switch in a desktop shortcut

So for your development profile, you would point the directory to a no default location, here you would have your un pbo'd mission folders in your profiles username folder

when you want to create a server mission, export the dev folder to Multiplayer via the editor = places it in the root MpMissions folder as a pbo file and not your profile user folder

this way the only server missions you have would be in the root mpmissions folder

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That's a great idea, thanks! Will give that a try.

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