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Will I have to repay for Minecraft when I get my new computer

#1 Jul 3, 2014

I plan on building a new PC in about months, but if i download minecraft to my current PC will i be able to download it to my pc in the future or will I have to pay for it again

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#2 Jul 3, 2014

I plan on building a new PC in about months, but if i download minecraft to my current PC will i be able to download it to my pc in the future or will I have to pay for it again

No, you will just use your current account to authorize a download. You can use your Minecraft account anywhere. Just download the launcher, log in and it will download a new copy, free of charge.

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#3 Jul 3, 2014

You only need to pay once, then you log in with your account from any computer and you can download and play Minecraft.

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#4 Jul 3, 2014

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#5 Jul 3, 2014

Very timely thread for me, since I just went through this.

I have Minecraft on our desktop but wanted to install it on our laptop as well. I did what was mentioned above and it worked just fine. Once I downloaded a copy onto the laptop I was able to login with my regular login credentials.

I do have another related question though.

When I login to my account on the laptop I don't see any of our saved worlds. Are they supposed to be there? Or do saved worlds not get automatically transferred over?

If they don't, I'm assuming it's because the data for those saved worlds is saved on the local hard drive of the computer where they were created.

If this is the case, is there a way to copy the saved worlds to another computer? I was able to look up in the FAQs how to find the Minecraft data files on your local hard drive. Is it possible to just copy those data files and transfer them to another computer? And, if so, which files do you take? Is it the file called "saves" (found in Library-->Application Support-->minecraft-->saves)? That's the one that seems to have all the files with the names of our saved worlds. Or do you just copy then entire "minecraft" folder

Thanks.

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#7 Jul 3, 2014

Thanks, Collin1971!

So, just replace the "saves" folder on the new computer with the existing "saves" folder from the old computer? (Or just transfer the files from "saves" folder on the old computer into the "saves" folder on the new computer)? I guess maybe the latter since one of my kids already created a new world on the new computer so that we don't lose that world.

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#8 Jul 3, 2014

You can copy all the worlds from the save file and put them on to your current save file folder if you already have some worlds on your new computer that you don't want to loose.

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#9 Jul 3, 2014

Awesome. Thanks for all the help, Mustache_Bear2 and Collin1971!

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#10 Jul 3, 2014

Actually, I guess a follow up question: I suppose there's no easy way to keep saved worlds synced between different computers?

Any saved changes made on one computer will not transfer to any other computer, so once I copy a world to another computer, it will basically be like a parallel file that will evolve differently from the original on the old computer.

Is there any easy way around this to be able to share saved worlds between different computers? I guess maybe by using a NAS or some kind of shared drive? But then is there a way to set Minecraft to look for the saves in a different location (i.e. on a shared network drive) other than its default?

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#12 Jul 3, 2014

Actually, I guess a follow up question: I suppose there's no easy way to keep saved worlds synced between different computers?

Any saved changes made on one computer will not transfer to any other computer, so once I copy a world to another computer, it will basically be like a parallel file that will evolve differently from the original on the old computer.

Is there any easy way around this to be able to share saved worlds between different computers? I guess maybe by using a NAS or some kind of shared drive? But then is there a way to set Minecraft to look for the saves in a different location (i.e. on a shared network drive) other than its default?

With the Minecraft launcher, there is an option to choose where you want your "profile" to be installed.

A profile is an instance of the game, with a certain version of Minecraft and it's set of saves, options, resource packs, etc. However, it isn't part of the .minecraft folder, and can be copied between computers.

You could in theory make a profile in the Minecraft launcher, and set it's location to your network location. (a NAS of shared drive)

By going to the bottom left corner of your launcher, you can create a new profile or edit a profile's settings to find these options. Simply tick the "Game Directory" setting and give it your custom network path.

However, this comes with downsides if you use a network drive.

Unless on a very fast network connection, you will most likely experience extremely slow world loading and game performance, and there is a chance if two computers are playing on the same world to completely corrupt the world and/or profile.

A better option would to grab a free Google Drive account (or Dropbox) and download their special sync progarms. These sync programs create a folder on your computer locally that will sync to the internet when they change. And you'll always get the latest copy of your data as long as you're connected to the internet. This comes without the risk of slow performance, because you'll actually be saving it to your computer like usual, and uploading it when you're done.

Great idea, Collin1971!

After you initially posted, I started looking into accessing my computers over our local network. I was going to see if I could set a profile (as you recommended) on the laptop with a custom path to access the file on my desktop/host computer but was having trouble because I couldn't remember the password.

But now I've read your update to the post about using Google Drive. I use some of their doc programs (like the spreadsheet) so I'll just have to look into how to put a copy of the Minecraft data on the Google MyDrive and look into the sync programs you mentioned.

After that I guess it's just setting a profile with a custom path to the files in a special sync folder so Google Drive will know which files to sync?

That's an awesome idea. I'll just have to look into how to implement it, but I'm assuming it's not too complicated.

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#15 Jul 3, 2014

You only have to pay for it once. You can download it as how many times as you want under YOUR account.

Thanks, Mustang83!

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#16 Jul 8, 2014

Actually, I guess a follow up question: I suppose there's no easy way to keep saved worlds synced between different computers?

Any saved changes made on one computer will not transfer to any other computer, so once I copy a world to another computer, it will basically be like a parallel file that will evolve differently from the original on the old computer.

Is there any easy way around this to be able to share saved worlds between different computers? I guess maybe by using a NAS or some kind of shared drive? But then is there a way to set Minecraft to look for the saves in a different location (i.e. on a shared network drive) other than its default?

With the Minecraft launcher, there is an option to choose where you want your "profile" to be installed.

A profile is an instance of the game, with a certain version of Minecraft and it's set of saves, options, resource packs, etc. However, it isn't part of the .minecraft folder, and can be copied between computers.

You could in theory make a profile in the Minecraft launcher, and set it's location to your network location. (a NAS of shared drive)

By going to the bottom left corner of your launcher, you can create a new profile or edit a profile's settings to find these options. Simply tick the "Game Directory" setting and give it your custom network path.

However, this comes with downsides if you use a network drive.

Unless on a very fast network connection, you will most likely experience extremely slow world loading and game performance, and there is a chance if two computers are playing on the same world to completely corrupt the world and/or profile.

A better option would to grab a free Google Drive account (or Dropbox) and download their special sync progarms. These sync programs create a folder on your computer locally that will sync to the internet when they change. And you'll always get the latest copy of your data as long as you're connected to the internet. This comes without the risk of slow performance, because you'll actually be saving it to your computer like usual, and uploading it when you're done.

Actually, I guess a follow up question: I suppose there's no easy way to keep saved worlds synced between different computers?

Any saved changes made on one computer will not transfer to any other computer, so once I copy a world to another computer, it will basically be like a parallel file that will evolve differently from the original on the old computer.

Is there any easy way around this to be able to share saved worlds between different computers? I guess maybe by using a NAS or some kind of shared drive? But then is there a way to set Minecraft to look for the saves in a different location (i.e. on a shared network drive) other than its default?

With the Minecraft launcher, there is an option to choose where you want your "profile" to be installed.

A profile is an instance of the game, with a certain version of Minecraft and it's set of saves, options, resource packs, etc. However, it isn't part of the .minecraft folder, and can be copied between computers.

You could in theory make a profile in the Minecraft launcher, and set it's location to your network location. (a NAS of shared drive)

By going to the bottom left corner of your launcher, you can create a new profile or edit a profile's settings to find these options. Simply tick the "Game Directory" setting and give it your custom network path.

However, this comes with downsides if you use a network drive.

Unless on a very fast network connection, you will most likely experience extremely slow world loading and game performance, and there is a chance if two computers are playing on the same world to completely corrupt the world and/or profile.

A better option would to grab a free Google Drive account (or Dropbox) and download their special sync progarms. These sync programs create a folder on your computer locally that will sync to the internet when they change. And you'll always get the latest copy of your data as long as you're connected to the internet. This comes without the risk of slow performance, because you'll actually be saving it to your computer like usual, and uploading it when you're done.

Great idea, Collin1971!

After you initially posted, I started looking into accessing my computers over our local network. I was going to see if I could set a profile (as you recommended) on the laptop with a custom path to access the file on my desktop/host computer but was having trouble because I couldn't remember the password.

But now I've read your update to the post about using Google Drive. I use some of their doc programs (like the spreadsheet) so I'll just have to look into how to put a copy of the Minecraft data on the Google MyDrive and look into the sync programs you mentioned.

After that I guess it's just setting a profile with a custom path to the files in a special sync folder so Google Drive will know which files to sync?

That's an awesome idea. I'll just have to look into how to implement it, but I'm assuming it's not too complicated.

You should be able to grab it from this link. For me, it creates a "Drive" folder in my user folder like this:

C:\Users\Collin\Drive

After that's installed, you should be able to create a folder in your Google Drive and have it sync to your PC, then just set the launcher to it.

Once again, thanks Collin1971 for your great suggestion.

I installed Google Drive on my desktop and my laptop and then copied all my minecraft data into a folder in my Google Drive folder and then changed the custom path on the Minecraft application to the folder in my Google Drive.

Now both copies of the MC on the 2 different computers pull from the same synced saved data on my Google Drive so that we can play on either computer and access any saved changes in any of our worlds seamlessly regardless of which computer we play on.

I accidentally deleted the saved worlds at one point because I thought I was
copying
my files from my desktop to the Google Drive, but it was actually
moving
the files and not
copying
them. At first I only transferred the "saves" folder, but then I realized I should've probably transferred the entire "minecraft" folder, so I deleted the "saves" folder I initially transferred and then re-transferred the entire "minecraft" folder. However, when I looked at the files I noticed that the entire "saves" folder (where all the saved world data resides) was missing. It was then that I realized my mistake and what happened, but I had already emptied the trash. Fortunately, I backup my computer every night so I was able to get the saved worlds back. (*phew!*)

In any case, for any others who might do something similar, some tips:

(1) when transferring files from your computer to your Google Drive folder, it's just treated as another folder on your computer so it will
move
the folder, not
copy
it, and

(2) always back up your files!

Thanks!

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