Outis Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 I know that I brought this up a number of months ago, but I never received a definitive answer: Are there any plans to put together some sort of syncing option for highlights and user notes so that one's computers can stay synced together? I like dropbox. But I haven't been able to figure out a way of syncing user notes with dropbox. Just wondering.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanHuber Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 There are other programs like dropbox out there, such as sugar sync, and I think some of them may allow you to choose which folders you want to sync rather than forcing you to place them in the program's sync folder. Perhaps that may be useful for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrnewsguy Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Just last month Lifehacker posted an article about two Dropbox utilities you can try depending on your operating system. Check out this page on the Dropbox wiki (which I just learned existed) to see what they have to say about them. Apparently all it takes is installing the software and then telling it where you want a shortcut placed in Dropbox to the folder you want to sync with. I haven't tried it myself because my Dropbox needs aren't that complex. But now that you've brought up the possibility of syncing user notes and other Accordance folders, I may have to try it. http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/MacDropAny Let us know about your experience with these add-ons. @dankassis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 http://wiki.dropbox....dons/MacDropAny Let us know about your experience with these add-ons. @dankassis I did finally have some time to try out the "MacDropAny" utility. When I actually followed the directions, it works fine. So, I'm writing here to let people know that it does indeed work. Just make sure that you don't have Accordance running on both computers at the same time. That messes stuff up. When you are finished with Accordance on one computer, wait for the files to be uploaded to dropbox, quit accordance on the first computer, then open it on the other computer (after the files have updated on dropbox on that second computer). Thanks very much for the suggestion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikes Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 I'm trying to figure out how this would work... does it move the Accordance Folder over to dropbox and pop in a symlink in its place on both machines? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 I'm trying to figure out how this would work... does it move the Accordance Folder over to dropbox and pop in a symlink in its place on both machines? Actually, quite the opposite. It puts a symbolic link in the dropbox folder. Then both computers sync to it (without having to move any stuff out of your Accordance folder in your Documents folder). In effect, they end up syncing to each other through dropbox. Pretty neat stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Han Posted March 26, 2011 Share Posted March 26, 2011 Actually, quite the opposite. It puts a symbolic link in the dropbox folder. Then both computers sync to it (without having to move any stuff out of your Accordance folder in your Documents folder). In effect, they end up syncing to each other through dropbox. Pretty neat stuff. Can you try downloading your Accordance files directly from Dropbox website and see what happens? In my experiments before a round trip via Dropbox resulted in files no longer being able to be opened in Accordance. I use ln -s to point my files to Dropbox folder without moving them in as well. It works great. But I don't sync Accordance files for the reason stated above. One could manually zip Accordance folder, and it will survive the roundtrip, but it's a hassle. I've been trying to automate this with Automator, and if I come up with anything useful I will post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 Can you try downloading your Accordance files directly from Dropbox website and see what happens? In my experiments before a round trip via Dropbox resulted in files no longer being able to be opened in Accordance. Yep, when I download my user notes from the dropbox website it strips the resource forks. However, I'm not really concerned too much about this, since I never use the dropbox website anyway. I'm only concerned with syncing my MacPro with my Macbook Air (through dropbox). And for this task, it does preserve the resource forks (and extended attributes). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outis Posted March 26, 2011 Author Share Posted March 26, 2011 One could manually zip Accordance folder, and it will survive the roundtrip, but it's a hassle. I've been trying to automate this with Automator, and if I come up with anything useful I will post it here. I've been using a shell script (via crontab) to make my accordance files into a disk image and then push them to my remote server now for years. This was (still is?) the only way I could archive and back up my essential files while still preserving the resource forks and extended attributes. Sometime when I just used zipped files (or g-zip, or tgz, etc) the mac stuff was not preserved. I'm sure I'll end up continuing to follow this practice for years to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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