On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Bert Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Liviu, > > Thanks for suggesting SpiderOak. It looks like a nice service. > > Aside from the particular service I use, though, would it be > sufficient to synchronize a certain folder or set of folders (if so, > which ones?) or should I have it sync all of LyX and MikTeX? > I think for LyX it should suffice to backup: ~/.lyx
But for MikTeX, it would be a tall order. I guess as long as you have 'Install packages on the fly' option enabled and run Tools > REconfigure in LyX, MikTeX should install all relevant packages that you might be using. This should take care of most sync issues, I think. Liviu > Best, > BL > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Bert Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear LyX Users, >>> >>> I would like to keep my LyX settings synchronized between my home and >>> work PCs. Is there a preferred way to do this? >>> >>> I have plenty of space in my Dropbox account and was thinking about >>> just installing LyX (and MikTeX too, I suppose?) to Dropbox, but I >>> suspect there is a more efficient way to go about this. >>> >> I would certainly advise against this! >> >> If you wish to synchronize a config file across machines you could use >> SpiderOak. Unlike Dropbox, SpiderOak is more flexible and can backup >> and synchronize arbitrary files on a given machine, not only those put >> in a special folder. In addition to this, SpiderOak provides too >> privacy (they never have plain-data access to anything that you put on >> their servers). And SpiderOak Hive provides the exact same >> functionality as the My Dropbox folder. The downside of SpiderOak's >> flexibility is that it can be less intuitive than Dropbox, but this is >> very easy to work around. >> >> Regards, >> Liviu >> >> PS You can get an additional 1GB of free storage space (for at total >> of 3GB) if you created your account using my referral link: >> https://spideroak.com/download/referral/55f89bacc25641617a230e47766115ee >> . This is part of the traditional SpiderOak Refer-A-Friend program. >> >> >>> Many thanks in advance, >>> >>> BL >>> >>> PS - Win 7 Pro 64-bit, using LyX 2.1.2 and MikTeX 2.9. >> >> >> >> -- >> Do you think you know what math is? >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 >> Or what it means to be intelligent? >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 >> Think again: >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
