[ale] sync desktop and OS X laptop?

[Mark Wright]

oooooh your right.  That may be a bigger problem than maildr formats.



On Jan 24, 2006, at 12:54 PM, fletch at phydeaux.org wrote:

>
>>
>> Does anybody have an idea how to do a windows style briefcase setup
>> for a Mac laptop and Ubuntu desktop.
>>
>> It would be similar to syncing a PDA I guess.
>>
>> I would like to make my /home/mark on Ubuntu and /Users/Mark on OSX
>> sync up over ethernet so that all my email and the contents of my
>> documents folders are mirrored.
>
> Be careful doing this as there's some special stuff in your home dir
> (specifically under ~/Library) that may not take kindly to being  
> tossed
> back and forth to a non-HFS-y filesystem.  Mainly you'd worry about  
> it if
> you still use pre-OS X apps under Classic (things that may have  
> resource
> forks associated with them).
>
> As for email, the cleanest solution would be to have an IMAP server  
> that
> you leave your mail on and run clients on both machines against that
> (Mail.app on the Mac can be told to cache copies of everything  
> locally so
> you'd even be OK disconnected, I believe).
>
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