Is DropBox a usefull tool?

hmm.... In a word, yes! I feel like I am a little late to this party but what a productivity booster DropBox can be. The greatest thing about Dropbox is that it acts like a folder on your drive and everything you put in there gets synced. Now you might not think that is so great since you would have to store all your configuration files in some random folder but all you really have to do is move your important files to the sync folder and then create a symbolic link to them from the original location. Pretty darn simple and very effective. Now I can have one .vimrc file, one plugin directory, one .alias file and all my different machines can use it!

Here is a snippet from my notes that shows you how simple this really is:

SYNCING MY FILES VIA THE CLOUD (DROPBOX)

Once dropbox is installed I ran these commands on my myth box and things were backedup and synced

mv hlp Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/hlp/ hlp

mv bin Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/bin/ bin

mv web Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/web/ web

mv .vimrc Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/.vimrc/ .vimrc

mv .tcshrc Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/.tcshrc/ .tcshrc

mv .alias Dropbox/HOME

ln -s ~/Dropbox/HOME/.alias/ .alias

On other linux machines I will have to diff these files and see if there is any way to easily merge them

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/hlp/ hlp

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/bin/ bin

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/web/ web

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/.vimrc/ .vimrc

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/.tcshrc/ .tcshrc

tkdiff ~/Dropbox/HOME/.alias/ .alias

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