Synchronizing User Notes between mutliple macs

[Christopher]

Here's my situation: Computer 1 is iMac at home; Computer 2 is Macbook. Both run Leopard, both have Accordance. I have started using a User Note file for sermon preparation, and I would like to keep it synchronized between both computers. I'm still relatively new to using Macs, and Accordance. I have a MobileMe account, and am wondering if it is possible to change the location of the User Note file to the iDisk, and thus have it always available on both computers. Has anybody tried this? If not, do you think it would work?

 

Cheers,

Christopher

[Helen Brown]

At present the default and only possible location of the User Notes is in the ~user/Documents/Accordance files/User Notes, so what you are asking is not possible.

 

Either you need to copy the notes to the other Mac each time you edit them, or simply keep separate sets of notes and periodically merge them using the Merge feature.

[David Lang]

Actually, you could place your User notes file on your iDisk, and then place an alias to that file in the ~user/Documents/Accordance files/User Notes folder of each computer. I just tried making changes to a user notes file on one computer and then seeing if the user notes would update on the other computer. They did, but I had to quit Accordance and relaunch to see the changes.

[jpkang]

And for those who don't want to pay for MobileMe or don't want to use iDisk, I highly recommend Dropbox (free for 2GB of synchronized files using Amazon's S3 service--it's quite fast and available for Mac, Windows, and Linux).

 

In this case, you would simply keep your notes file(s) in your local Dropbox folder and place aliases to them in ~/Documents/Accordance Files/User Notes/ and make sure that only one instance of Accordance is editing them at one time per David's post.

[Semstudent]

Here's my situation: Computer 1 is iMac at home; Computer 2 is Macbook. Both run Leopard, both have Accordance. I have started using a User Note file for sermon preparation, and I would like to keep it synchronized between both computers. I'm still relatively new to using Macs, and Accordance. I have a MobileMe account, and am wondering if it is possible to change the location of the User Note file to the iDisk, and thus have it always available on both computers. Has anybody tried this? If not, do you think it would work?

 

Cheers,

Christopher

 

 

I like the solutions provided in response, though it would be nifty if this syncing could happen in a more automated way. I'm thinking here of MacJournal or iBank, two apps i use that automatically sync to my MobileMe iDisk and automatically show up on my desktop or laptop.

[ddoyle777]

At present the default and only possible location of the User Notes is in the ~user/Documents/Accordance files/User Notes, so what you are asking is not possible.

 

Either you need to copy the notes to the other Mac each time you edit them, or simply keep separate sets of notes and periodically merge them using the Merge feature.

 

Helen,

 

I'm very surprised to hear this as I'm using my notes in my Dropbox folder and it moves fine between desktop and laptop. I just did a change on the desktop to see if it migrated and it came up fine on the laptop. I have been doing this for some months and haven't misplaced any notes that I know of.

 

Maybe the reason for this is that I've been using a saved session on both computers and after I moved the file from the default location to the dropbox folder the program asked me to find the notes and I simply pointed it to the new location and away I went. The ~user/Documents/Accordance files/User Notes folder is present but empty.

[Mary Hinkle Shore]

Helen,

 

I'm very surprised to hear this as I'm using my notes in my Dropbox folder and it moves fine between desktop and laptop. I just did a change on the desktop to see if it migrated and it came up fine on the laptop. I have been doing this for some months and haven't misplaced any notes that I know of.

 

Maybe the reason for this is that I've been using a saved session on both computers and after I moved the file from the default location to the dropbox folder the program asked me to find the notes and I simply pointed it to the new location and away I went. The ~user/Documents/Accordance files/User Notes folder is present but empty.

 

Every time I try to use Dropbox for this function, my notes files show up as text files and can't be opened by Accordance. Even the files I've saved by moving them to the desktop--when I put them back in the Documents folder, are unreadable. I've spent about three hours today trying to get this to work.