thanks Jon - very helpful - will chase this!
IH
On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 20:40:56 UTC+1, jkn wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 6:58:12 PM UTC+1, Israel Hands wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I use Sync rather than dropbox for my shared data and Sync works by
>> having a directory on your machine that is nominated to be 'synced' to the
>> cloud storage. Which is fine but I quite like having text files in that
>> shared folder that are used with @auto in a leo file. However because Win
>> and MacOs refer to directory paths differently I haven't worked out how to
>> have Leo under MacOs and Win 'see' the same file from the same @auto node.
>> I hope that makes sense. I wouldn't mind keeping the text files in the same
>> directory as the Leo files is there a way of making this work?
>>
>> ta
>>
>> IH
>>
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> I do something like this, under Linux and Windows. I have @file nodes with
> names like this:
>
> @file .{{sep}}docs{{sep}}myfilename.mwiki
>
> (this is a 'mediawiki' file).
>
> The {{sep}} gets magically converted to '\' under Windows and '/' under
> Linux. I think there are other keywords available with this {{...}}syntax;
> look for a thread "cross-platform file references - how to deal with?"
>
> As shown this keeps the @file within the main Leo file directory, under a
> 'docs' subdirectory in this case; I use it with Owncloud in a similar way
> to your use of Sync. I presume that with the sue of symbolic links, under
> Linux at least one could put them somewhere else. However I haven't yet
> pursued this.
>
> HTH
> Jon N
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