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.
Bittorrent sync alternative 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.
Bittorrent sync alternative mac#
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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