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Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

Michael Sampson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:15:12 -0000

Another option to look at is SugarSync.

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

jezarnold — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:29:22 -0000

Nick

Like Stephen says, you could change the home drive on your mac. Alterantively you could change the drive on your PC.. Just create /Macintosh HD/Users/nick/Documents/ on the PC.. go to the main My Documents link.. Right Click > properties > change this to /Macintosh HD/Users/nick/Documents

Once you have clicked Apply, and then OK, it will ask if you want to move everything from My Documents to the new folder.. Yep!

To be fair, its the first thing I do. Create new folder in C:\ and call it data. Its the new My Documents. Easy peasy file name stucture.

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

Victoria Pickering — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:19:11 -0000

I'm interested in the same portability question, again starting from using a Dell Inspiron as my primary business computer. I've never stored my files under Documents and Settings - instead, I've set up directories like c:\business for my files - so I was assuming that if I set up similar directory structures elsewhere, I could sync without a mapping problem - true? And if so, would it work for you to move your files to a directory that both machines could handle?

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

markus941 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:35:40 -0000

I swear by mydropbox. If you want an invite, drop me an email. I think it might be the perfect solution for you.

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

Scott — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:33:21 -0000

Jungle Disk can support this with the advanced options setting.

On one of your machines, you just need to "View Advanced Options" for the applicable folder selected for backup. You can then change the "Remote Backup Path" to be the same path that was backed up from your other machine.

Hopefully that helps!

Re: A Glitch in My Digitally Nomadic Life

Stephen Roberts — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:47:36 -0000

Well, on your mac you could create the directory /NICKLAPTOP/C/Documents and Settings/Nick/My Documents and then link it to /Macintosh HD/Users/nick/Documents/

Unix/OSX is much better with file and directory linking than Windows, tho you may have to do it at the command line vice the finder. Just be careful of owner and permissions and it should work.