- #MINECRAFT ON MAC OS X ZIP FILE#
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#MINECRAFT ON MAC OS X FREE#
Then you can create a new one and adjust the schedule to run every 24 hours, or what every you prefer.Minecraft is an amazing game thanks largely to a massive community of creative individuals who spend their free time tweaking, modifying, and overhauling just about every aspect of the experience. To check to see if your crontab was saved run this command or wait 2 minutes to see if a new backup is added. Then press the ‘esc’ key to exit insert mode.ġ1. With out going to deep into crontabs, this command tells your computer to run the script backups.sh every two minutes. Make sure you substitute your user account name in place of “USER1” */2 * * * * /Users/ USER1/Desktop/backups.sh Press “i” to enter insert mode, and paste the command from below into the window. This will open a blank window so we can create our task.Ĩ. I’m going to set this example up to backup every 2minutes. Time to create a crontab which is just a scheduled task. It should create a new backup in your backup folder.ħ. you should now have a new file on your desktop named “backups.shĦ. #! /bin/bashĭitto -c /Users/ USER1/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft /Users/ USER1/Desktop/MineCraft\ Backups/minecraft_backup.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).zipĥ. Make sure you substitute your user account name in place of “USER1”.
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When the blank terminal windows opens, press “i” to enter insert mode, and paste your command from below into the window. Open Terminal and type the below: cd ~/desktopĢ. I stopped there, but if you wanted too, you could take this a step forward by creating a launch daemon or crontab. Now anytime you want to make a backup of your entire minecraft folder you can simply double click your script. If everything went well the Terminal window should say “Process Completed” You should get a Terminal window that pops up and a new. Double click the “Backup_Minecraft” file. If it was successful you’ll notice the “Backup_Minecraft” file has changed in appearance.Ĩ. chmod u+x /Users/ USER1/Desktop/Backup_Minecraftħ. Back in terminal type the below command, again make sure to substitute your user account name in place of “USER1”. Now we need to make it executable so we can run the command. you should now have a new file on your desktop named “Backup_Minecraft”Ħ. Press :wq to save and close the vim editor.ĥ. Then press the ‘esc’ key to exit insert mode.Ĥ. press “i” to enter insert mode, and paste your command from above into the window.ģ. This is going to create a file on your desktop call “Backup_Minecraft” that we are going to save our command into.Ģ. So let’s make that command a shell script. That’s was pretty easy but we don’t want to have to remember that command everytime we want to make a backup.
#MINECRAFT ON MAC OS X ZIP FILE#
Tells ditto to save the archive as a zip file I like to be detailed and this way no matter how many times I run my script they will always have a different file name and I won’t have to worry about them overwriting each other. It simply appends the year, month, day, hour, minutes, and seconds onto the end of the file name. Path of the file or folder that we want to back upĭestination = /Users/USER1/Desktop/MineCraft\ Backups/minecraft_backup Source = Users/USER1/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft The command is a simple ditto -c “source” “destination” “options”ĭitto -c /Users/USER1/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft /Users/USER1/Desktop/MineCraft\ Backups/minecraft_backup.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).zipĪ command that copies directory hierarchies, create and extract archives If successful you should see a zip file added to your backup folder. ditto -c /Users/ USER1/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft /Users/ USER1/Desktop/MineCraft\ Backups/minecraft_backup.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).zip Make sure you substitute your user account name in place of “USER1” in the below command. You should have the two folders open like below.Ĥ. I created one called “MineCraft Backups” on my desktop, just to be easy. Now create a folder to place your Minecraft backups in.
Navigate to the Application Support/minecraft folderģ. First on the desktop select “Go”, “Go to Folder” from the top menu barĢ. Using the Command Line to make the Backupġ. So I made a simpe script that can be run just by double clicking an executable shell script. I finally got tired of navigating to the Minecraft folder in the User/Library/Application Support folder.
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My son is supper big into Minecraft, and it always comes up whenever there is a new update … How do I backup my Minecraft folder?
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