Sharing preferences

[Jan Erik Moström]

Before figuring out the best way to do this for me, I would like to ask
a few questions.

- In chapter 2 in the manual there is a description of how to share the
application support folder using Dropbox or iCloud. The preferred way is
Dropbox, I assume iCloud causes some problems?

- Are there any other methods of sharing the application support folder
than Dropbox/iCloud? I would prefer not installing Dropbox, and one of
the machines I have uses a different Apple ID. What my machines already
have in common is, of course, git, and a shared folder on a Synology
server, but I don't know if this helps in any way.

- The preference file, I assume there is no way to share that, but what
would be the best way to keep them up-to-date? Use the preference file
on one machine as the "main" file and copy it to the rest? Use git to
maintain a master copy (but I imagine this would not be a good solution
since the plist seem to contain temporary data)? I suppose a better
question would be: how can I keep the preference settings reasonable up
to date on all machines?

= jem

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 27 Jul 2021, at 11:00, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

> - The preference file, I assume there is no way to share that, but
> what would be the best way to keep them up-to-date? Use the preference
> file on one machine as the "main" file and copy it to the rest? Use
> git to maintain a master copy (but I imagine this would not be a good
> solution since the plist seem to contain temporary data)? I suppose a
> better question would be: how can I keep the preference settings
> reasonable up to date on all machines?

I should perhaps add: I don't know what data this file contains and if
it's worth sharing? I assume "expert settings" and "basic preferences"
but I don't know what settings are considered "basic"

= jem

[@lbutlr]

On 2021 Jul 27, at 03:00, Jan Erik Moström <li...@mostrom.pp.se> wrote:
> Before figuring out the best way to do this for me, I would like to ask a few questions.
>
> - In chapter 2 in the manual there is a description of how to share the application support folder using Dropbox or iCloud. The preferred way is Dropbox, I assume iCloud causes some problems?

Dropbox is (or at least was) more reliably about making sure the files are present than iCloud was, however, iCloud seems to work fine as far as I can tell in my testing. I don't use that myself as I do most of my Bbedit on my main machine and very rarely on others.

> - Are there any other methods of sharing the application support folder than Dropbox/iCloud? I would prefer not installing Dropbox, and one of the machines I have uses a different Apple ID. What my machines already have in common is, of course, git, and a shared folder on a Synology server, but I don't know if this helps in any way.

I can't think of a reason that git would not work, but it is a bit out of the realm of the BBEdit manual, so not mentioned. The worst that could happen is the you try it and it doesn't work for some reason. You would not want to git sync when Bbedit is open on any machine, probably, which would be an issue for me, for example, as BBEdit is always open.


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