[tomboy-list] Tomboy-list Digest, Vol 30, Issue 2

[Josep M. Fontana]

OK. Thanks tchomby. Now I get it.

And yes, as you say, the only drawback of this method is that you have 
to remember to click on Tools > Synchronize notes. It seems simple 
enough to do this but there are a bunch of forgetful people out there 
(one of them myself).

Josep M.
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 12:48:13 +0100
> From: tchomby <tchomby at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [tomboy-list] Tomboy-list Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1
> To: tomboy-list at lists.beatniksoftware.com
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> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:10:01PM +0200, Josep M. Fontana wrote:
>   
>> I didn't understand what was involved tchomby's option 1:
>>     
>>> 1. Using tomboy's Synchronisation feature and a local folder. I would
>>> then use dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com/) to sync the local
>>> folder. The drawback of this is that it looks like I have to remember
>>> to press Synchronise Notes all the time in tomboy, otherwise my notes
>>> won't be accessible.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't understand how one can use dropbox to sync a local folder. The  
>> way Dropbox works is synchronizing a specific local folder (which you  
>> setup as your Dropbox folder) with a server which then is synchronized  
>> with other local Dropbox folders in other computers.
>>     
>
> You sync to a local folder that happens to be inside your dropbox folder.
>
> What Dropbox does is to synchronise a local folder ( ~/Dropbox ) with your 
> online Dropbox account (and then by running Dropbox on multiple machines it can 
> keep the local ~/Dropbox folders on multiple machines in sync).
>
> Lets say I make a folder in my Dropbox folder called tomboy-sync, as far as 
> tomboy, any other apps, and the operating system are concerned this is simply a 
> local folder ~/Dropbox/tomboy-sync in my filesystem. The only program that 
> treats the Dropbox folder specially is the dropbox program itself.
>
> So using Tomboy's 'Sync to Local Folder' option I can sync my tomboy notes to 
> ~/Dropbox/tomboy-sync, which is a local folder. Since this local folder happens 
> to be in my Dropbox folder, the Dropbox program will see the change to it and 
> synchronise that change to my Dropbox account, and to any other Dropbox folders 
> I have on other machines.
>
> On another machine, if I then run Tomboy's Sync to Local Folder with 
> ~/Dropbox/tomboy-sync again, then the two Tomboy instances will be 
> synchronised. (As long as I waited for Dropbox to finish syncing the 
> ~/Dropbox/tomboy-sync folder first).
>
> Personally I think it would be a hassle to remember to press sync in tomboy all 
> the time, but it could work.
>
>   
>> What I had in mind was the following:
>>
>> 1) Move the default Tomboy folder to a specific subfolder within my  
>> Dropbox folder, let's call it Tomboy folder.
>>     
>
> According to the replies to my post this would not work, don't do it.
>
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