Vitamin-R 2 Help

  Vitamin-R 2 Icon   A. Dropbox Synchronization
 

Vitamin-R is able to synchronize logs between several Macs and Vitamin-R for iPhone using the Dropbox file synchronization service.

If you don't have a Dropbox account already, you can, at the time of this writing, sign up for a free 2 Gb account at:

http://www.getdropbox.com

You will need to have a Dropbox account and the Dropbox application installed on your Mac before you can activate the syncing feature. We strongly recommend installing your Dropbox folder to the standard location suggested by the installer.

To activate syncing:

® ⇒ Settings ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Cloud Sync ⇒ Activate Dropbox Synching

Vitamin-R will then try to create a new Vitamin-R folder within your existing Dropbox folder and move all your log files into this folder. All new log files will be written to this location.

You need to repeat this procedure on every Mac on which you want Vitamin-R logs to sync.

Your logs, as well as the statistics based on them, will now be available across all your machines. The log files have unique names, so there should be no potential for losing any information due to conflicts between files.

This is a new feature and syncing is notoriously difficult to test outside of a real world setting. It is therefore possible that there might be some slight "hiccups" while some of the initial teething problems are sorted out.

If your log files are important to you, you might want to create a backup of them before activating the feature, just in case something unexpected and unpleasant happens. To create a quick back-up, proceed as follows:

  • In the Finder, navigate to <YOUR HOME FOLDER> ⇒ Library ⇒ Application Support.
  • Right-click (or Control-click) on the Vitamin-R folder and select Compress Vitamin-R.
  • Move the new .zip archive to a location of your choosing for safe keeping.
We only support the standard Dropbox folder location directly inside of your Home folder. If you have already installed Dropbox in another application, the Dropbox client application will let you move the folder in the "Accounts" tab of its Preferences.

If that is not an option for you and you have some basic Unix skills, you can create a symbolic link named "Dropbox" in your home folder that points to your custom location.

You can find out more about symbolic links at: https://gigaom.com/2011/04/27/how-to-create-and-use-symlinks-on-a-mac/

Below is the an example of the command line that you would need to use in order for Vitamin-R to find your Dropbox folder inside the your Document folder:

ln -s ~/Documents/Dropbox ~/Dropbox

In general, we recommend not using Dropbox with custom locations, as we feel that any slight advantage that this may have are likely outweighed by the potential problems that non-standard locations can create.

Please let us know if you run into any problems. We can only fix problems that we know about, and we want to do everything we can to ensure your experience with Vitamin-R is a pleasant one. If you have a technical problem, a suggestion, or simply want to say hello, Just drop us a line at support@publicspace.net.

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