Hello, I just did a fresh install of Snow Leopard on my Macbook, and I decided to take the opportunity to do something I ought to have done ages ago: to move my Mnemosyne folder to my Dropbox folder and to have the Mnemosyne application launch with the parameter necessary to use that folder.
Doing this on a PC ought to be fairly trivial feat—adding launch parameters to shortcuts is easy. On Mac OS X, though, it's a bit more complicated. Here are the steps I followed: (NB: The following was done with Mnemosyne 1.2.1 on OS X 10.6) 1. Go to your /Applications folder and rename Mnemosyne.app to app_mnemosyne.app 2. Move the Mnemosyne folder in /Users/(username)/Library/ to your Dropbox folder (/Users/(username)/Dropbox/) 3. Open AppleScript Editor and paste in this command: do shell script "/Applications/app_mnemosyne.app/Contents/MacOS/ mnemosyne -d /Users/Bill/Dropbox/Mnemosyne" Be sure to change "Bill" (my username) to your own username. It should look something like this: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/118928/permalink/AppleScript%20Editor.png 4. Save the script as an application with the name Mnemosyne to your / Applications directory, like so: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/118928/permalink/Save%20Script.png 5. Now, when you launch the application called Mnemosyne, it will launch the original Mnemosyne application (app_mnemosyne) with the directory parameter pointing to the Dropbox directory. ----- If you need a Dropbox account, you can get one at http://www.getdropbox.com/, or through my referral link: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTExODkyODk I imagine there are more elegant and simple solutions to achieve the same thing, but this appears to work, and it opens up the exciting possibility of being able to use a single Mnemosyne database seamlessly among multiple computers (albeit in an asynchronous fashion). – Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
