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Hello I have made a program that creates ini files and save users info to it. Im wanting to somehow point the ini files to goto some sorta file hosting site and not host them local so mulitable people can use this and all the info stays current any ideas?

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I dont have a website atm was trying to find some free hosting i dont need that much storage. the way i have my prog setup it creates the ini files also so i dont even have to make them. So InetGet() will make the ini file on the website then send it to the local machine and all changes made?

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You could use a DropBox account and store it there, just add a link to it in your script. I'd create the INI file before you use this script in the wild though because you'll be able to preset some things in it to test it on other computers before releasing it.

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You could use a DropBox account and store it there, just add a link to it in your script. I'd create the INI file before you use this script in the wild though because you'll be able to preset some things in it to test it on other computers before releasing it.

would dropbox have to be installed on every computer using the software?

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Only on your's, once the file has been migrated to your account's folder on dropbox you just have to create a link to it, it would appear like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11960446/_ProgressGUI.au3 which is a file I have on my public folder in my dropbox account.

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I believe that would require the link to be updated each time which could defeat the object (if indeed I'm understanding the goal)

At the risk of getting called cyber names, I'll tell you that I once done something rather sneaky to achieve a similar endgame

not long after starting with autoit.

I cannot remember if I used facebook, some other social network or a bog standard forum somewhere, it doesn't matter

the result was the same, I posted some information there, and wrote a function with a bit of string jiggery pokery to retrieve

that info and write it to file, each time I wanted the info to change, I just edited the post/

oooooh the shame.

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I cant read or edit the ini files i have uploaded to dropbox with my program. I guess ill have to find free website hosting and upload it to that or if anyone has any other ideas?

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