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April 24 2010

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

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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