Can TheBrain be synced without the cloud

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 20, 2014 at 04:52 PM

I don’t know anything about Chronosync or rsync, so can’t comment on that. As to an external hard drive, I guess that could work. You will need to be sure to move or copy any external files you use into TheBrain (there’s an option to just link to the file, but obviously, if you do that you won’t have access to it on the other computer). I posed your question to the help people at TheBrain.com and here was the response:

“It’s certainly possible, but we do not recommend syncing across anything except WebBrain as it has been known to cause corruptions in Brain databases.”

I don’t know if they might be exaggerating the possibility of corruptions because they want to get people to sign up for WebBrain, I’m not sure. In truth, I’ve had a corruption of one of my brains using WebBrain, but I think that is related to also running the beta test version of the iOS app.

Steve Z.

Prion wrote:
Thanks Steve, that sounds like it was impractical on a daily basis. I
>was more thinking along the lines of an automatable sync process using
>utilities such as Chronosync, rsync and the like. Or even putting the
>database (if there is one) on an external hard drive.
>Does that sound feasible?
>Prion