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[Michael Flaig <mflaig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

just a side-note on dropbox. I am waiting for the ubuntu-one sync and
until then I sync Data and Settings of GTG with dropbox.

You should not run gtg on more than one machine at the same time
otherwise the last closed one wins and overwrites data already edited.

First start gtg on the first machine. Modify all settings and add your
tasks, then on the first machine I moved the ~/.local/share/gtg to
Dropbox and symlinked it afterwards. Same thing with .config/gtg

On the other machines I create the symlinks before first launch of gtg.

Works for me...

Cheers,

Mike

On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 14:58 +0200, Jean-Christophe Berthon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Dropbox does follow symlink. I have a symlink inside the Dropbox
> folder to my Music folder.
> However, on the other machines, I needed first to synchronise Dropbox,
> then to quit it, move the Music folder to the appropriate place and
> then create the symlink.
> 
> But as Yuri said, I would not do that to GTG esp. if you could have to
> sync-computers running at he same time.
> 
> What probably would better work is to add a new back-end "local file"
> that you store on UbuntuOne/Dropbox/yourliking. So the back-end can
> try to synchronise between this external task list and is internal
> one. This seems more sensible to me, and that is probably the
> developer intention.
> But as Yuri said "This is for the developers to answer", so take care.
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Christophe
> 
> 2010/9/30 Yuri Schaeffer <yuri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         Luis,
>         
>         > I installed GTG at work and added some tasks and some
>         labels.
>         > From within the Dropbox folder typed:
>         > ln -s ~/.local/share/gtg my_gtg_data
>         
>         
>         I suspect Dropbox does not follow symbolic links, which seems
>         sensible.
>         Try to create a hardlink (omit the -s).
>         
>         However:
>         I don't know the GTG internals but I expect things will get
>         ugly when
>         you run GTG on multiple machines simultaneously while having
>         them synced
>         with Dropbox. This is for the developers to answer. In the
>         meantime
>         don't forget to close GTG when you leave home/work.
>         
>         Maybe GTG has a alternative (better) sync method?
>         
>         //yuri
>         
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