Comments on: Syncing Apps With Dropbox

By: James Yamanaka

James Yamanaka — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:25:14 +0000

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By: James Yamanaka

James Yamanaka — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:23:24 +0000

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By: WillPtwo

WillPtwo — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:49:41 +0000

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By: Thorsten Knatz

Thorsten Knatz — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:34:25 +0000

Obviously I am too stupid to create a symbolic link.
How do I create one for my Billings database in the Dropbox folder that will link back to the Libary?

By: Putting the THINGS in GTD: Managing an Academic Life with Cultured Code’s Things

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:01:51 +0000

[...] you have multiple Macs and you’d like to use the same Things library between them, this post explains how to use Dropbox (another of my top 5 applications) to sync multiple installations of Things. A [...]

By: Beverly

Beverly — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:30:41 +0000

Thank you Luke! I have multiple libraries so my computers are used to having to “find” them in various locations, so it should work that they are located in a different area. Thank you for the link to confirm. I created an alias of dropbox on the MacPro separate harddrive, then put the libraries in it. It seemed to “copy” them into the alias folder and has been uploading for 3 days with about 13 more days to go. It was about 50GB size. I was afraid to use the symbolic link incase I made a mistake that I could not undo, although tempting. Thank you for assuring me that iPhoto will work in DropBox!

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:03:21 +0000

Hi,

Yes, iPhoto can be used with DropBox sync, I have this configured myself. You can do this in two ways. [1] move the iPhoto folder manually to DropBox then create a symbolic link for the folder using the method above in my original post and put the symbolic link in the original place of the iPhoto library. Or [2] follow this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229 which shows how to move your library using the iPhoto interface [probably the better option]. You can then choose DropBox as the location for your photo’s and iPhoto will be cool with it.

Hope this helps.

Have a good new year!

Luke

By: Beverly

Beverly — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:33:47 +0000

Can iPhoto be used in DropBox to sync on desktop and laptop? Sugar Sync cannot. All my iPhoto libraries are on a separate internal HD inside my MacPro desktop and in the “Pictures” folder on the laptop. Don’t understand if an alias is necessary? Or, if it will even work for iPhoto? Thank you. Have been searching for answers for many days!

By: Zettt

Zettt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:41:52 +0000

This tip is just great! I knew symbolic links are recognized by Dropbox but I didn’t knew Aliases work as well. Fantastic. This makes this process much more usable. Thanks a lot!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:39:02 +0000

Important to note that it appears that Billings only edits the data file when it is closed, as opposed to Things, which edits the data file on the fly. This means if you leave Billings open on your laptop, then load it on your desktop, the data will probably get out of sync (and most likely fubarred).

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:13:52 +0000

Yes I have.

Your Billings database folder is located at usersusernamelibraryapplication supportbillings

I simply moved this to my dropbox folder and then created a symbolic link from the moved folder and then moved this link back to ..application support

So when Billings is launched it looks for the billings folder in application support and sees a fake billings folder that actually points to the correct billings folder in the dropbox.

* Creating an alias won’t do the same thing as a symbolic link. To understand how to create a symbolic link go to http://tinyurl.com/cpmoc4

** I have actually gone one step further and created an encrypted disk image with my billings folder contained in it just for extra security! I of course need to mount this image before I use billings.

Hope this helps.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:23:31 +0000

I’m a bit late to this thread because I just started using Dropbox. Has anyone tried this approach for syncing iWeb’s “Domain.sites” file from the ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder? I’d like to be able to edit my iWeb site from either my laptop or my iMac without tediously copying the most recent Domain.sites file back and forth. Guess I’ll just try it after safely tucking a backup away…

By: Julius

Julius — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:15:15 +0000

This works great. My only problem is that if I don’t quit Things in one computer when I open it in the other, there is a conflict. Do you know if there is a way to quit Things if the computer is put to sleep and/or it has not been used for certain time? That would be very helpful, thanks!

By: pflynn

pflynn — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:09:30 +0000

Has anyone managed to get Billings to sync using dropbox? a great app but would benefit from being usable anywhere.

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Sync Files on Multiple Computers Using DropBox — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:21:56 +0000

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