Hi Bill, Glad you got that working. Here is a more elegant method which is how I use unison to synchronize my mnemosyne files between computers. For what we are talking about here they are equivalent. Here are the commands:
mv $HOME/Library/Mnemosyne $HOME/Dropbox/ ln -s $HOME/Dropbox/Mnemosyne $HOME/Library/Mnemosyne So we just need to move the mnemosyne folder to the dropbox folder and then create a symbolic link from the old location of the mnemosyne folder to the actual location. So whenever mnemosyne looks for the files in the old location, it actually gets sent to the real location. -Jason On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Bill Price<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
