Syncing worksheets across different computers?

asked 2014-02-11 09:04:46 +0100

Alasdair
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I know this has been asked before, but I don't believe there has been a satisfactory answer. I'm using Sage in two places: work and home, and would like some way for my recent work at either place to be synced to the other. With individual files Dropbox works a treat, but I understand that Dropbox has some difficulty with symbolic links, and as such is sub-optimal for the syncing of Sage worksheets.

I suppose I could save a worksheet to an .sws file within my Dropbox tree...is there a way to set up the notebook so that no matter where the worksheet files are stored, all sws files are kept somewhere else?

answered 2014-02-11 16:51:23 +0100

slelievre
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Maybe move your .sage folder to your Dropbox folder, and keep a .sage symlink in your home, if Sage is happy with that (not tried).

Otherwise, you could use a synchronization tool such as rsync to keep your folders in sync, either manually syncing at the end of each work session, or using some automation tool such as cron.

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Thanks for that! I don't think that rsync would work easily as the work machine is behind a firewall, and the only way to access it is by vpn. Dropbox is perfect in the way that stuff simply moves in and out of it with no help from me, after the initial set-up. (This sort of mindless syncing suits me perfectly.) I'll try moving .sage into my Dropbox folder, and see what happens. I could also, I suppose, start the notebook with `/home/me/Dropbox/sage` as its directory....

Alasdair ( 2014-02-11 17:59:21 +0100 )edit

It works for me by moving only the .sagenb folder.

Thanh Nam ( 2015-03-24 12:14:39 +0100 )edit

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