logan's log: How I Sync Application Preferences through Dropbox

One day all life will be in the cloud, it wont be called the cloud anymore it will be just connecting.

Until the the early adopters are makeing pathways…

I’v not tried this yet, but looks interesting and may well give it a go

I use Dropbox to sync and backup most of my stuff. Out of the box, Dropbox makes it easy to sync documents, photos, music etc.

However, I also wanted it to sync application preferences between my Macs. This can be done in a rather simple way, using a Launch Agent and a simple Ruby script.

This…

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  4. majerski answered: What would be benefit of having it this over making the actual plist file to a symbolic link and copying it to the dropbox folder?
  5. ramlev answered: Looks really nice, testing it at this moment. Planned to tweak it to handle complete folders as well
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