How to sync BBEdit to Dropbox?

[Kat]

I keep reading that you can do this, but I see no option in the prefs.
How do you do it ?

[David Kelly]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:50:36AM -0700, Kat wrote:
> I keep reading that you can do this, but I see no option in the prefs.

Just what is it about BBEdit you wish to sync?

All you have to do is edit a file in your Dropbox folder for Dropbox to
mirror that on all machines you have logged on to that Dropbox account.

I don't see where BBEdit has to do anything special warranting an option
in preferences. But perhaps I don't understand what you are trying to
accomplish.

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[Ken Rachynski]

Per the release notes at http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit10.html

If you use Dropbox, you can relocate your BBEdit application support data to your active Dropbox folder, and BBEdit will use them there in preference to the locations in ~/Library/. In this way, you can easily share supporting files with multiple BBEdit installations (handy for multiple machines on your desk).

Here's how:

• Quit BBEdit if it is running.

• Move your home/Library/Application Support/BBEdit to yourDropbox/Application Support/BBEdit/. Note that by default, there is no Application Support folder in your Dropbox, so create it if necessary.

Note: The system does not support relocation of the core preferences data file (~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.plist), so you won't be able to synchronize preference settings. However, if you use MobileMe, its ability to sync preferences should do the job.

Note: The ability to share supporting files between multiple installations of BBEdit does not excuse you from the terms of the end-user license. You can use Dropbox to share the supporting files with whomever you like, but you must continue to abide by the terms of the license agreement.

If you like, you can relocate "BBEdit Backups" from~/Documents/BBEdit Backups to ~/Dropbox/BBEdit Backups/, and BBEdit will place your backups there instead. (As before, you can alias it to some other location.)

On Jul-22-2011, at 10:50 AM, Kat wrote:

I keep reading that you can do this, but I see no option in the prefs.
How do you do it ?

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[paullu]

I'm having some trouble with this.

I create a folder called "Application Support" (no quotes) at the root
of my Dropbox install, drag/drop the BBEdit folder from Library and
then make sure the one under ~/Library/ is deleted.

Every time I start up BBEdit, the folder under ~/Library/ gets re-
created.

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?



On Jul 22, 12:13 pm, Ken Rachynski <k...@rachynski.org> wrote:
> Per the release notes athttp://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit10.html

> > please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.

[fongd]

On Aug 2, 2:09 am, paullu <p...@lukinich.org> wrote:
> I create a folder called "Application Support" (no quotes) at the root
> of my Dropbox install, drag/drop the BBEdit folder from Library and
> then make sure the one under ~/Library/ is deleted.
>
> Every time I start up BBEdit, the folder under ~/Library/ gets re-
> created.

I think that is expected behaviour. The important part of the release
notes is that BBEdit uses the files in Dropbox IN PREFERENCE to the
ones in ~/Library, which means that BBEdit will still use any files in
~/Library if they exist. This is probably why BBEdit recreates its
hierarchy in ~/Library even if you're using Dropbox, so you can create
local customizations and still use the settings in your Dropbox as the
defaults.

OTOH, Dropbox support seems hit or miss. For example, it seems that
colour schemes (located in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color
Schemes) are ONLY read from ~/Library. If you try to install a colour
scheme into the equivalent location in your Dropbox, it won't be
recognized (well, at least for me they aren't).

[Rich Siegel]

On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, fongd <fong....@gmail.com> wrote:

>OTOH, Dropbox support seems hit or miss. For example, it seems that
>colour schemes (located in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color
>Schemes) are ONLY read from ~/Library. If you try to install a colour
>scheme into the equivalent location in your Dropbox, it won't be
>recognized (well, at least for me they aren't).

Fixed in 3063 and later: <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/browse_thread/thread/118395a8397e0203>.

R.
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[Bruce Van Allen]

On 2011-08-02, Rich Siegel wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, fongd <fong....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>OTOH, Dropbox support seems hit or miss. For example, it seems that
>>colour schemes (located in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color
>>Schemes) are ONLY read from ~/Library. If you try to install a colour
>>scheme into the equivalent location in your Dropbox, it won't be
>>recognized (well, at least for me they aren't).
>
>Fixed in 3063 and later: <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/browse_thread/thread/118395a8397e0203>.

I notice that DropBox sometimes lags in sending items across my
local network. So when I first tried this by putting my laptop's
BBEdit folder in DropBox, when I started BBEdit in my desk
machine, not everything was there. I had to quit BBEdit, and
wait a bit; then it all showed up when I started BBEdit again.

Also, Rich, is the description above correct, that BBEdit looks
in DropBox, grabs what it can find there, and then ALSO pulls
local stuff from ~Library/Application Support/BBEdit?

Thanks.

- Bruce

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[Steve Kalkwarf]

On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:15 AM, fongd wrote:

> OTOH, Dropbox support seems hit or miss. For example, it seems that
> colour schemes (located in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color
> Schemes) are ONLY read from ~/Library. If you try to install a colour
> scheme into the equivalent location in your Dropbox, it won't be
> recognized (well, at least for me they aren't).

If you read the release notes for the last two public betas, that's been fixed.

Steve