5/28/2023 0 Comments Chronosync dropbox![]() ![]() Each time beorg downloads an updated org file from WebDAV, Dropbox, iCloud, etc it keeps a copy of what it is replacing - and the same happens when you update a file in beorg. I use my own app beorg to edit these files on my iPhone and iPad.A major benefit of using this system over more proprietary apps is that I retain ownership of my data and can easily automate backup to different places. Most of my note taking, project planning, time tracking and other documents is handled by Emacs using Org mode. If you need/want to give me more specific examples of what your end goal is, I can try and point you in the right direction.As a freelancer my data is very important to me. Sorry for the lengthy post, just trying to explain as much as I can in a way that makes sense and gives context. If you choose to go the third party sync root, particularly with ChronoSync, for now like mentioned above, both source and destination folders need to be locally stored somewhere, even if within dropbox, for ChronoSync to function correctly. But if you have any kind of complex folder/file exclusion rules, or other parameters you'd like to set up for syncing, then you'll need something like ChronoSync to help you manage that. If you're looking for a set it and forget it, always mirrored folder structure, then dropbox backup will likely work very well for you. If dropbox backup worked like ChronoSync does, where it monitored a specific folder for changes without changing it's location or moving files around etc, and synced accordingly, it would be a much more robust solution. I've learned this the hard way, very long story. However, if for some reason you re-install dropbox, unlink your account, etc, and forget to turn off computer backup first, your user folders for documents, downloads, music, etc get really messed up because the OS is looking for them in a place they no longer exist, because the symlinks are now broken. In theory, this is great, because you have one version of those folders that's always synced across devices. Users/Victor/Dropbox/My Mac (computer name)/Documents This means that the OS still sees your documents path at: The above explained backup solution that is part of dropbox itself doesn't work very well for me personally, because I don't have the flexibility to do what I want with the source/destination files separately, and more importantly, at least in the case of the computer backups, dropbox makes symlinks, in the form of aliases on Mac, to your documents, downloads, etc on your actual machine, and moves all of your content into your dropbox folder. If I choose to share something in my dropbox, wherever it may be located, I should be able to do that without restriction, but that's just my opinion. Also, recently, dropbox seems to be revoking share access to anything in a backup, whether it's a computer or hard drive (someone correct me if I'm mistaken here), which I really don't appreciate. Backups of external hard drives, which were just introduced, will not let you edit anything from the dropbox side at all, they are strictly a clone of the local hard drive. So whatever you delete/modify in Dropbox Backup, for computer, will change on the computer version of those files/folders, and vise versa. ![]() This is where ChronoSync shines, more on that in a minute. But it will not let you have a different set of data in the cloud, and locally, nor will it let you control how that data is synced/managed between the two. It depends on what you want to accomplish, and how you want to accomplish it. Dropbox Backup, in general, is good for MIRRORInG data on computers/hard drives, etc. ![]()
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