Hi Bill, I'm glad it worked for you. Hopefully it will make Mnemosyne upgrades easier as well.
Jason On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bill Price<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
