Sonny Software

On my desktop Mac, I moved several attachments into my BE db by selecting the Get PDF function -> Find and Attach local PDF. I then moved my BE folder over to dropbox. Now, when I open my BE db from my dropbox folder on my MacBook, BE cannot locate any of these attachments. Other older attachments seem to be located and displayed by BE fine.

I attempted to run the Get PDF function-> find and attach local PDF once more on the MacBook, but now it looks like for each reference I did this for, I have two PDF files associated with that reference in BE, however, if I look at where these attachments are, they both point to one file sitting in my MacBook for my original BE db on the MacBook. I'm sure I am creating large problems for myself since the original BE db on the MacBook was once copied from the desktop Mac, so I'm pretty sure I am confusing BE by having too many of the same databases floating around. I suppose the best move would be to consolidate my db on one Mac first and start over.

As a broader related question, I need to keep the same BE db and attachment folder up to date across two Macs and am wondering if dropbox is the best solution for this. For those of you doing something like this with dropbox, do you simply work from the dropbox folder on each mac as I have described above, or do you option-copy your BE folder back and forth between your macs so that you have a local copy on each mac and one sitting on dropbox that you manually update? My alternative is to use something like ChronoSync.

Mark

I'll let others give their workflows, but I'd suggest this:

1. Use Bookends Sync to sync your databases across devices (see the User Guide for several scenarios). It's preferable to go through an intermediary server, but not necessary.

2. Use DropBox to sync pdfs. You can tell Bookends to use the DropBox folder (or a subfolder) as the default attachments folder. OR, you can manually attach one pdf from that folder, and Bookends will always search it when it looks for attachments).

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon,
I'm hitting a wall on how to do this successfully and will send you a support email.

Mark