set up dropbox sync for one folder on my mac

~/.ssh/ – This one will be controversial to some people who worry about security and who are right now terrified at the idea of someone managing to get into my ~/.ssh/ and muck about with it. Library/Caches/Homebrew/ – I use Homebrew on all of my Macs and tend to install the same packages everywhere, so I sync the cache folder so I don’t have to re-download the packages for each Mac. ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing/ – I sync this to keep my Screen Sharing. qlgenerator files sync’d together, and I have a sync’d LaunchAgent plist which watches ~/Library/QuickLook/ and runs /usr/bin/qlmanage -r whenever it changes. ~/Library/QuickLook/ – This keeps my QuickLook. sync/IgnoreList feature to not sync any file that begins with com. That actually prevents most from syncing automatically, but the ones that I make and do want to sync I prefix with . so I’ll know those will sync to all of my Macs (I hinted about that in Keep Desktop Clean By Name). ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ – I sync my LaunchAgents folder, but I use the.

However, there are a few sub-folders in there that you might want to sync. I definitely would not recommend that, as I think it is just begging for trouble later on. If you’re a Mac geek of a particular type, you are probably wondering if you can sync your ~/Library/Preferences/ and ~/Library/Application Support/ folders. The first thing I did was setup syncing for the standard OS X folders: However, I didn’t have the time to explain a lot of what I use BitTorrent Sync for, which is what I want to do now.

My last article for TUAW was BitTorrent Sync gives you the flexibility to sync anything, which included a farewell Easter egg. In today’s post, tech writer TJ Luoma shares how he uses Sync to set up the folder structure on his Mac, keeping things like his ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ and ~/Library/QuickLook/ folders synced.

Set up dropbox sync for one folder on my mac