Possible for Application Support files to live elsewhere?

[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?

[nick]

It is not officially supported. Application Support is the standard directory for data like this.

[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

[nick]

You should probably still back up everything in Application Support, a lot of data gets saved there.

[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.

You should probably still back up everything in Application Support, a lot of data gets saved there.

[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)

[Paco II]

Oh yeah, totally! Backups are definitely happening. Thanks!

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)