Confirmed that that works, and you're right, it's much more elegant! Thanks for the tip, Jason.
On Sep 4, 2:59 am, Jason Axelson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
