[tomboy-list] Tomboy and DropBox ?

[Sandy Armstrong]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Pascal Sartoretti
<pascal at sartoretti.name> wrote:
> So.... If I understand correctly, there are two possible ways to use Tomboy
> and DropBox :
>
> 1- Put your notes in DropBox's folder (using TOMBOY_PATH or a symlink), AND
> don't forget to enable the standard "NoteDirectoryWatcher" add-in. Risk :
> additional DropBox activity.
>
> 2- Leave your notes in the default Tomboy directory, but use the "Local
> Folder" synchronization to a DropBox folder.
>
> And what should not be done :
>
> 3- Just put your notes in DropBox's folder.
>
> Is this correct ?

Yes, except given Alan's latest email claiming that you can get data
loss with method #1, too, I'd say that there is currently no safe way
to do this *if* you intend to keep multiple instances of Tomboy
running at the same time.

So if you do want to keep Tomboy running simultaneously on different
machines, it seems the only safe method to use is a real server-based
sync.  Ubuntu One is probably the easiest thing to set up right now.

Sandy