File Conflicts

If you use a cloud storage to edit your project files, it is not recommended to edit your files on multiple devices at nearly the same time. For example, if you edit and save the exact same map on multiple devices at nearly the same time, your cloud storage provider might create a sync conflict which you have to solve by yourself to avoid data loss in worst case.

Mapper MZ is able to detect and warn you about possible conflicts and gives you the choice to either keep your current changes or discard and reload from the cloud storage. While that functionality works most of the time, it has certain limits and doesn’t work in all possible scenarios and file conflicts might still be created.

Therefore, Mapper MZ has no integrated support to act as a team solution to allow multiple people to work on the same project at the same time using a cloud storage. Especially because RPG Maker MZ uses a single file “MapInfos.json” as a “table of contents” for maps, which can cause sync conflicts quickly just by moving, renaming or creating a map. Since we do not own RPG Maker MZ and have no control over it, we cannot change this behavior.

If you want to work with a team we recommend using GitHub and one of the many Git apps available for iOS. See also Frequently Asked Questions about how to use Git and Github with Mapper MZ.