Log/Account/Preferences syncing between machines...

quidire · Post by **quidire** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:49 pm

This was posted at the end of a previous thread; I don't think anyone read it before the thread moved off the first two pages of topics
I have to say, I wish we had the option of having our logs sync via .Mac ...

I know some (many/most) don't bother w/ a .Mac account, but that doesn't stop the devs of NetNewsWire and OmniWeb (among others) from supporting that functionality.

Now they are paid for their efforts, whereas you guys just get grief from idiot users like myself but if it were possible, it would be stellar if the following could be sync'ed:
• Accounts and their data (keychains unnecissary, as they are already synced via normal .Mac preferences)
• installed xtras
• preferences, including the specific customisations one may have made to the appearance of their contact list or message window
• logs

Ideally one could choose one or all of these "categories" to sync, so people who aggressively use their iDisks and couldn't care less if they have the same emoticons on each instance of Adium aren't force to shut off the whole feature.

(As I just use mine for email and preferences of apps that do support it, 1GB seems like quite a bit of space.)

/Volumes/iDisk/Documents/Adium X/
./System/ <- to hold a lock file to prevent race conditions during sync?
and then the simplest organisation would be to mirror the App Pref folder

however another option would be to mirror the organisation above (or whatever categories you all choose) such as
./Accounts/
./Xtras/
./Preferences/
./Logs

(which also has the benefit of being more intuitive to the casual user)

Anyway, here's to hoping that this piques the interest of one of the devs!

-RS

PS http://developer.apple.com/internet/dotmackit.html is an introduction to the .Mac SDK

Ethion · Post by **Ethion** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:54 pm

Even though this doesn't at all answer your question, I bet this could be done with a actionscript of some sort.

quidire · Post by **quidire** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:56 pm

Ethion wrote:Even though this doesn't at all answer your question, I bet this could be done with a actionscript of some sort.

? I suppose an Applescript could push/pull files from one's iDisk.

I was more hoping for a .Mac SDK-based solution... especially as I don't know how Adium would react to having its preferences etc clobbered every so often while the program was running.

-RS

therealdawime · Post by **therealdawime** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:17 pm

I guess I'd like to be able to sync to .Mac as well, but using the .Mac SDK as opposed to developing one's own technique would prevent other WebDAV servers from being used as well.

Surely were it to be developed, there could be a default "profile" for .mac and the ability to enter in the relevant information for another profile. (Much the way Google Talk has a seperate entry from Jabber, but uses the same code)

Daniel.

quidire · Post by **quidire** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 5:38 pm

therealdawime wrote:I guess I'd like to be able to sync to .Mac as well, but using the .Mac SDK as opposed to developing one's own technique would prevent other WebDAV servers from being used as well.

I just imagine using the SDK would be a lot easier than rolling one's own...

-RS