What about replacing the plists with symbolic links named com.barebones.bbedit.plist in ~/Library/Preferences/ on each machine, and linking the symlinks to the actual plist file stored somewhere within Dropbox? I recall that worked for doing what the official Dropbox syncing does now prior to there being official Dropbox syncing in BBEdit.
Guessing that won't work because Rich would have suggested it already, but I'm curious to know why it won't :). -matt On Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:19:56 PM UTC-4, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On Saturday, August 23, 2014, Jan Erik Moström <li...@mostrom.pp.se > <javascript:>> > wrote: > > >Yes, this is what I'm doing now but "Since the system does not support > >relocation of an application’s core preferences data file > >(~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.plist`), you cannot > >directly sync these settings. > > Correct; and unfortunately since system-intrinsic preferences > syncing went the way of MobileMe, there's no good > system-supported solution for this. It's unlikely that we'd > undertake to try and do it ourselves. > > That said, *some* preferences data (which doesn't reside in the > system-resident preferences) can be relocated to Dropbox. I > believe chapter 2 talks about how to do this, as well. (It's a > trick similar to relocating the Application Support subfolder, > but instead applies to the contents of ~/Library/BBEdit/.) > > R. > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <sie...@barebones.com <javascript:>> < > http://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they > sedate me. > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
