Timothée, Fischlin, and Simon, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Simon Spiegel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
Thank you all for the very helpful suggestions. I have looked into your suggestions, and figure that using the Dropbox might be a better option for me. I have registered at Dropbox. Something I'd like to know more is about the symlink, as I certainly do not want to put the physical files into the Dropbox folder. As Simon pointed out, the alias might not be the best solution; I however do not know how to use the shell to create a symlink. Does the following freeware help to achieve the same task? http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html Thanks. JT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
