On 16.04.2010, at 21:17, Jung-Tsung Shen wrote: > I recently purchased an imac for my home so I can leave my macbook in > my office and don't have to haul it back and forth between my home and > my office. I managed to have most crucial programs to be installed on > this new imac, but am now puzzling over what I should do to make the > bib databases of the two computers synchronized? > > Here is the situation: > > 1. Both computers on each side obtains its ip address via DHCP (so no > static ip); > 2. At this moment, the database is on my macbook but I imagine that in > the future I will constantly add new entries into either database of > the two, depending on where I work. The database on my macbook is > quite sizable so copying onto a USB stick might not be an efficient > way if this has to be done everyday.
The solution I use is Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com ). I have my complete personal tree (~/Library/texmf) on my Dropbox and symlinks* on the different machines point to it. It's perfect for this setup. *A symlink is something like an alias, but not quite the same. It also refers to a location on your hard drive, but comes from the Unix side. Symlinks are created in the shell, aliases in the Finder. The main difference between symlinks and aliases is that a symlink is completely transparent, meaning that the file system handles the symlink exactly like the place it refers to which is not the case with aliases. Simon -- Simon Spiegel Steinhaldenstr. 50 8002 Zürich Telephon: ++41 44 451 5334 Mobophon: ++41 76 459 60 39 http://www.simifilm.ch „Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.“ General Buck Turgidson
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