I would look a Unison File synchronization...
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On 6 Mar 2018, 01:00 +0200, Dan Hicks <[email protected]>, wrote:
> Years ago, I wrote an AppleScript to synchronize notes between a “master”
> copy of a PDF (lives in a designated folder on my hard drive, indexed by
> Zotero, Skim notes) and the “Dropbox” copy (lives in a designated folder in
> Dropbox, Spotlight comment points back to the master copy, readable on my
> phone using a PDF reader, PDF annotations). This script has recently stopped
> working. Since I haven’t used AppleScript in like five years, I don’t
> remember how to navigate through the garbage fire that is AppleScript’s
> various file classes (POSIX files vs aliases vs that colon-separated format
> vs when you can just pass a string, etc), and I can’t even build a MWE to
> diagnose the problem.
>
> So I’m tempted to rewrite the script in bash using the SkimNotes command-line
> tool.
>
> But since I’m not super fluent in bash, and haven’t used SkimNotes before, I
> thought first I’d check and see if anyone already has a bash script for
> something like this use case they’d be willing to share.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
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> Daniel J. Hicks
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> Data Science Initiative
> University of California, Davis
>
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