Re: Sharing preferences

[@lbutlr]

On 2021 Jul 27, at 03:00, Jan Erik Moström  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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Re: Sharing preferences

[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

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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

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