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Brian, We just sent you a private note about the plugin details. Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Symbolic link to Dropbox/.unidata folder seems to work, good idea! > > Yes I'd be interested in trying the Dropbox plugin please. > > Thanks, > Brian > > > On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > > Brian, > > This sounds like a good idea. I would suggest accomplishing this with > symbolic link from the file system. Also see the -userpath IDV command line > option to change the location of the of the .unidata directory. There may be > problems we have not anticipated, but it is still worth a shot. > > On a somewhat related note, I wrote an IDV dropbox plugin > https://github.com/julienchastang/idvbox that allows you to publish bundles > to dropbox (just like you do with RAMADDA). If interested, I can give you > more details. > > Best Wishes, > > Unidata IDV Support > > I am tired of my laptop and desktop IDV sessions saving their custom color > tables, history, favorites, etc. in my home directories on different machines. > > Can I store that stuff in Dropbox and somehow tell IDV on both machines to > look there, instead of in ~/.unidata/idv when I click it to life? > I'd rather not have to launch it from a command line with an argument, but I > guess that would be acceptable. > > Can I consolidate them from different machines, or will I have to favor one > machine's version as the new starting point for my future consolidated > preferences file? > > Thanks for any assistance. > Brian > > Brian Mapes > address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden><mailto:address@hidden> > > > > > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: ONX-380426 > Department: Support IDV > Priority: Normal > Status: Closed > > > Brian Mapes > address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden> > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ONX-380426 Department: Support IDV Priority: High Status: Closed