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Synchronize the user folder between Macs via FileVault
Hello. First post ever here, long time lurker.
So, I'd like to mention a few things with this 1) I dislike FileVault. While an apparently great idea, the sparseimage used by it is sort of... well, turns out it sucks. I get file corruption once in a while and cleaning up the free/slack space is tedious. I stopped using it because it was very error prone on my Powerbook G4. 2) Replicating your home like this sounds like a bad idea. First because you might have unix dot files in your home directory which are specific the current machine, as well as your Library -- and having that be the same on two machines that have nothing in common besides running OS X sounds like a bad idea to me 3) What if you modify something on your desktop, and then go on to do something on your lappy and then only "sync" them up afterwards? You end up overwriting stuff. Bad idea. It would seem more appropriate to use something like rsync. Or better yet, all the world should look into unison. http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Unison just plain rocks for this. I personally use a subversion repository because I administer alot of these, and end up knowing it inside out. I also rely too much on ifolder, but I will have to change plans because Mono doesn't work too well on x86 at the moment, and my mac book pro is just out of luck. I think I'll give unison a second try, and so should you :) |
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