eheaton Posted December 10, 2014 Report Share Posted December 10, 2014 I was wondering if anybody had experience syncing the "/Applications", "~/Library/Application Support" & "~/Library/Preferences" folder in OS X between 2 computers. I'm wondering if theres any caveats I should be aware of or problems that might occur. Thanks,-Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevellyan Posted December 11, 2014 Report Share Posted December 11, 2014 I think that's likely to end badly. For example, Sync stores it's data in a sub-folder of ~/Library/Application Support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eheaton Posted December 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 Is it a matter of just having that sub folder ignored in the sync? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted December 15, 2014 Report Share Posted December 15, 2014 @eheatonIt is not advised to sync these folders. Writing to Applications folder often requires root privileges, while data stored in App Support and Preferences may contain system-specific data (like paths) which is valid for only Mac where it originates from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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