Dropbox to keep QS in Sync: where are all the files?

[pendolino]

Have any quicksilver users used Dropbox (dropbox.com) to keep QS
preferences and other related data in sync across multiple computers?

I've been thinking about this lately and have found that I make
certain tweaks or add triggers to one of my computers while forgetting
to do it on the other and Dropbox seems like a good way to sync those
settings since its quick, robust and unobtrusive.

The only problems I could foresee are simultaneous changes but these
should be rare given that I don't change things that often and that
changes would have more than enough time to propagate across machines
before I switched to them.

What I would really like to know from others with knowledge about this
is what files do I need to keep in sync? I'm guessing they're all in
the respective Library folder for QS but is there anything else?

[Patrick Robertson]

I haven't done this, but I'm sure it'll work.

The important files are:

~/Library/Preferences/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist - preferences

~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver - extra plugins, actions, triggers etc.

and there probably isn't any harm in syncing /Applications/Quicksilver.app (the actual app) just incase you have a different version on one of the computers

2010/1/5 pendolino <googlea...@ignoratio.com>

[Eris]

I don't recommend it. Quicksilver won't pick up the preference changes
until you restart it and you'll have two different running apps
competing for dominion of the same files. Also, the catalog is stored
in the application support folder and it is very much machine
specific.

[Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)]

You really don't want to do this. I had a similar idea when I was
first getting started with QS, but it just creates a god-awful mess.
As Eris pointed out, even if you only sync your triggers (note:
absolutely never try syncing the catalog!), all you will do is end up
creating a race condition where each copy of QS is constantly trying
to overwrite the other's settings. It may be a bit frustrating to have
to re-create a trigger on a second machine, but syncing will be a lot
more frustrating. After all, it only takes a few moments to create a
trigger, so if and when you find yourself needing a trigger, just make
it then.

On Jan 5, 2:16 am, pendolino <googleaccou...@ignoratio.com> wrote:

[Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)]

P.S.: If you are still relatively new to QS, then you are probably in
the stage where you are doing a lot of tinkering so that you can get
QS set up just the way you like it. If that is the case, you might try
just doing your tinkering on one computer until you are more or less
satisfied with it, and then just email your triggers.plist and
com.blacktree.quicksilver.plist to yourself so that you can drop them
into place on the other computer while QS is not running. Then the two
computers will be fairly similar to start out, and you can tailor each
one to fit more precisely with the individual computer that it runs
on. While you are doing the configuration on the one computer, just
use the command window on the other computer for now.

On Jan 5, 2:16 am, pendolino <googleaccou...@ignoratio.com> wrote: