After installation (I do that from from Homebrew) I would do
ln -fs $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3/preferences \
$HOME/lyxrc
and run unison with a force from the old to the new, but installing
unison is currently not advisable for casual users as the stable mac
version suffers from a SSH issue introduced by Monterey and the
developers are working on a rewrite anyway.
rsync is too complicated so I would probably just do something like this
on the old box
tar cvfz ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz ~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-2.3
scp ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz newbook.local:~/Downloads/
and on the new one
cd
tar xvfz ~/Downloads/lyxdir.tgz
I run unison regularly on all my systems in a star formation
synchronizing with each other, which I offer as the answer to below
question.
As it is scriptable it was a nice exercise to script it so that it knows
where it runs and what to to exactly, but that's another story :-)-O.
el
On 16/03/2022 22:27, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
All -
I have many preference settings that I would like to transfer to a new
MacBook Pro. What is the approved way to do this? Can I just copy
the preference file and bind file in Application Support/LyX-2.3 from
one computer to the other or what? Maybe I could copy the whole
LyX-2.3 folder? Along the same lines, what is the best way to keep my
LyX setup consistent across several computers. I use dropbox to sync
files.
Thanks,
Hal
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