September 22, 2012

Sync SublimeText2 Settings with Dropbox

Overview

In order to sync SublimeText2 settings with Dropbox, you need to symlink these folders of SublimeText to your dropbox.

On your main machine

cd to your dropbox folder where your want to symlink to.

cd ~/Dropbox/99_Sync/SublimeText
ln -s "/Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/" Packages
ln -s "/Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Installed Packages/" 'Installed Packages'
ln -s "/Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Pristine Packages/" 'Pristine Packages'

On your second machine

cd "/Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2"
rm -rf Installed\ Packages
rm -rf Packages
rm -rf Pristine\ Packages
ln -s ~/Dropbox/99_Sync/SublimeText/Installed\ Packages 'Installed Packages'
ln -s ~/Dropbox/99_Sync/SublimeText/Pristine\ Packages 'Pristine Packages'
ln -s ~/Dropbox/99_Sync/SublimeText/Packages Packages
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Qihuan Piao

Qihuan Piao

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