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Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere?
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:23 pm
by Paco II
I'd like to have the MacDive files that live in Application Support, live somewhere else. Specifically, I'd like to have those files in a DropBox folder. Is that currently possible?
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:59 pm
by nick
It is not officially supported. Application Support is the standard directory for data like this.
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 4:23 am
by Paco II
Please do at least consider this option for the future. A growing number of Mac applications are allowing users to choose the location for it's database file(s), to take advantage of the auto-backup, accessible anywhere, 'in the cloud', aspect of sites like Dropbox, MobileMe, etc.
fwiw, I've been able to accomplish this using symbolic links. works great, and I no longer need to worry about losing all my data if my computer crashes. As long as Dropbox doesn't crash
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:02 am
by nick
You should probably still back up everything in Application Support, a lot of data gets saved there.
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:05 am
by Paco II
Not sure what you mean. The entire MacDive folder lives in Dropbox, with a symbolic link in the Application Support folder. As far as MacDive is concerned, everything is exactly where it expects it to be. Works great.
nick wrote:You should probably still back up everything in Application Support, a lot of data gets saved there.
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:14 am
by nick
I mean you should back up everything in application support, if you are worried about your data. MacDive isn't the only thing that saves data there.
(Was talking more generally)
Re: Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:19 am
by Paco II
Oh yeah, totally! Backups are definitely happening. Thanks!
nick wrote:I mean you should back up everything in application support, if you are worried about your data. MacDive isn't the only thing that saves data there.
(Was talking more generally)