![]() ![]() I use and love SendToDropbox which is a great way to email files to your Dropbox account. I keep Dropbox running on my MacMiniColo machine, and I sync my BTS folders to that machine too, which means that I do not have to worry about my BTS folders not being available for some reason. #HAZEL MAC TORRENT TV#I moved my iTunes files to ~/iTunes/ ages ago because it didn’t make sense to keep it in ~/Music/ when it also includes TV and Movies. ![]() Likewise, I would not recommend keeping your iPhoto library in ~/Pictures/ if you are going to sync it. If you use a database app like DEVONthink I would make sure that its database is not stored in ~/Documents/ because I am not sure that it would handle syncing well. ![]() That did not work well either, and I recommend avoiding it. #HAZEL MAC TORRENT INSTALL#I also tried to sync /usr/local/ because I generally install the same Homebrew things on each computer. (This is probably a security feature, in that it prevents some malicious installer from putting something in there which will take over your default searches, or something like that.) I tried syncing ~/Library/Safari/Extensions/ to keep my Safari extensions in sync, but Safari does not like that, and seemingly refuses to recognize new extensions which are added directly to that folder. I added id_rsa*to the ~/.ssh/.sync/Ignorelist so my private key doesn’t actually sync. ![]() But the reality is that my life is boring and no one is likely to ever try to do that, and it’s convenient to have my known_hosts, config, and authorized_keys sync’d. ~/.ssh/ – This one will be controversial to some people who worry about security and who are right now terrified at the idea of someone managing to get into my ~/.ssh/ and muck about with it. Library/Caches/Homebrew/ – I use Homebrew on all of my Macs and tend to install the same packages everywhere, so I sync the cache folder so I don’t have to re-download the packages for each Mac. ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing/ – I sync this to keep my Screen Sharing. qlgenerator files sync’d together, and I have a sync’d LaunchAgent plist which watches ~/Library/QuickLook/ and runs /usr/bin/qlmanage -r whenever it changes. ~/Library/QuickLook/ – This keeps my QuickLook. sync/IgnoreList feature to not sync any file that begins with com. That actually prevents most from syncing automatically, but the ones that I make and do want to sync I prefix with . so I’ll know those will sync to all of my Macs (I hinted about that in Keep Desktop Clean By Name). ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ – I sync my LaunchAgents folder, but I use the. However, there are a few sub-folders in there that you might want to sync. I definitely would not recommend that, as I think it is just begging for trouble later on. If you’re a Mac geek of a particular type, you are probably wondering if you can sync your ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Application Support/ folders. The first thing I did was setup syncing for the standard OS X folders: However, I didn’t have the time to explain a lot of what I use BitTorrent Sync for, which is what I want to do now. My last article for TUAW was BitTorrent Sync gives you the flexibility to sync anything, which included a farewell Easter egg. In today’s post, tech writer TJ Luoma shares how he uses Sync to set up the folder structure on his Mac, keeping things like his ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and ~/Library/QuickLook/ folders synced. ![]()
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