Ruizs Place

I previously posted about a rather convoluted method to use mobileme and idisk to sync adium logs across computers, but after using that for a while, it turned into an exercise in frustration, as it was not reliable, and idisk is horribly slow.
I just came across a new solution to the same problem that is very simple, costs nothing, and performs great. Basically, let dropbox do the syncing for you. Instructions as follows:
- Sign up, download and install dropbox here
- Shutdown adium (or other chat client)
- Open a Terminal session
- Move your adium logs folder to dropbox:
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs ~/Dropbox/Private/AdiumLogs
-create a symbolic link from your adium folder to your dropbox private folder:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Private/AdiumLogs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs

On any other computer you’d like to keep in sync with:
- sync over your existing logs with rsync:
rsync -avl ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs/ ~/Dropbox/Private/AdiumLogs
- Move your old logs folder out of the way:
mv ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs.old
-create a symbolic link from your adium folder to your dropbox private folder:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Private/AdiumLogs ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/Logs

It really is that simple, and works great – thanks Dropbox for a great bit of software.