[OS X TeX] Compatibility of Lion and Snow Leopard file structures ?

George Gratzer gratzer at me.com
Tue Jan 31 10:19:52 EST 2012


Same with me.

All my current files are on Dropbox, so they are updated instantly
and I can continue work on my MacBook Air.

My Dropbox also contains the 1Password data file and the Yojimbo
data file.

GG


On 2012-01-31, at 9:41 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:

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> On 31.01.2012, at 15:37, Ralph Martin wrote:
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>> Folks, for what it is worth, I have had text files lose the last few lines while using Dropbox on multiple platforms, perhaps due to some differences in line endings, or assumptions about a final end-of-line being present. (This did not happen with TeX files, but .csv files, for what it is worth).
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> I realize that my experience is as anecdotal as yours, but I've been using Dropbox extensively for several years and never had any kind of data loss. I actually have my whole private texmf tree on Dropbox (on Lion); this works perfectly and guarantees that I always use the same setup.
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