Mnemosyne and Dropbox

[adrian.rodr...@gmail.com]

Hi. I am a Mnemosyne user since some years. I open this topic with the aim of contributing, but probably I will only show my computer clumsiness.

In order to syncronize Mnemosyne between my computers (home, work and laptop) I use Dropbox in the simplest way I have found: When I started for the first time Mnemosyne, I selected "File > Save as", and saved the file "default.db" in my Dropbox folder. Now, in order to sync up another computer, I do "File > Open" and select the file "default.db" which is in the dropbox folder.

It works fine, and I am confident that I am not the only person doing this. So my question is: Is this correct? Because in the web page (http://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/syncing) it is warned to "sync the entire Mnemosyne data directory" in order to not submit bad statistics to the science server; and I am not sure what this means. Maybe it could be clear for people who are inept with computers, like me.

Cheers. Adrián

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

If you don't need to use pictures and sound on your cards, and you don't feel too comfortable messing around with copying directories etc, you have my blessing to keep your current method :-)

Cheers,

Peter

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[adrian.rodr...@gmail.com]

Hi.

Thanks for your quick response! I was afraid of doing something wrong.

In fact Mnemosyne is so well designed that this method works also for pictures; Mnemosyne creates automatically a folder named "default.db_media" next to the file "default.db", where it saves all the pictures (I have never used sound on my cards).

Cheers. Adrián

[Alok Mishra]

Hello  Adrián,

I want to sync default.db file from my laptop to android device via Dropbox. Please guide me how to do it.

Thanks

Alok

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

 

The dropbox syncing described here http://mnemosyne-proj.org/help/syncing is unfortunately only for the desktop clients, for Android at the moment you still need to use Mnemosyne’s built-in sync protocol.

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

 

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[vwil...@googlemail.com]

Hi Peter,

Is there any plan to allow users in the future to select a database file when using the Android client?

My flashcard decks include cards I've made programmatically using word and sentence data. They have thousands of cards and the files are really big, so I've split some of them into separate files because they were too large for my old tablet PC to handle. It's also useful to be able to separate different study topics into different files.

In the past I've used the Mnemosyne desktop client synchronised using Resilio Sync (and before that Dropbox), and it's worked really well. I'd really like to use the Android client the same way, but right now it looks impossible.

So it would be great to know if just selecting a file within Android will be an option in the future.

Thank you for all your hard work on this great tool,

Victoria

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[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

Are you sure that with the latest version 1 big file still slows down your daily reviews? I have 30 000 cards in my database, and could run them without problems, even on my previous phone...

Cheers,

Peter

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