Living in two Worlds: Win7 and OSX -> TheBrain and TheBrain Cloud Services

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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Aug 31, 2012 at 03:50 PM

I am fully aware that TheBrain is not a solution for all of you.

But I have just implemented a complete and working system to have all my data stored in my brains (the files of TheBrain) available on my Win7 Notebook at work and on my MacBook Air 13” at home. This works with TheBrain 7 Pro Combo: TheBrain 7 on the Desktop (on both, Win7 and on Mac OSX) and with TheBrain Cloud Services. It is a quite an expensive experience but it is worth for me.

I did several tests to synchronize my brains to see whether there are issues or version conflicts. Nothing happened so far. Best is that I have saved copies of my brains in the cloud so whenever one Notebook gets lost or corrupted I can always download the brains from the cloud whenever I need it.

Are there other members in this forum who are syncing their brains across different computers and Operating Systems? What are your experiences? I really would like to hear from you how satisfied or dissatisfied you are.

All the best,
Dominik

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 31, 2012 at 09:42 PM

Dominik,

I too sync my brains on my MacBook with those on my office PC. For the most part it works like a charm. I occasionally, though less often now, have sync failures. But I am always able to eventually get them to sync. It’s not perfect though, as I have some virtual folders in my work brain. These of course do not sync (virtual folders are really just links to folders and files outside TheBrain).

One thing I haven’t tried yet, but I suspect it won’t work but it would be cool if it did: Creating a virtual folder link to a Dropbox folder. The Dropbox folder should be on both machines… I wonder if that would work. Has anyone tried this?

Steve Z.

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Sep 1, 2012 at 05:45 AM

Steve,

The sync process has improved a lot during the last few months and it is quite reliable. This is key because otherwise I wouldn’t be willing paying for it.

Regarding a virtual link to a folder on Dropbox: I don’t use Dropbox but Google Drive. Google Drive is like Dropbox an own folder on each machine. It is not working with my system because the naming of the folders is different:

Win (work): C:Users/UserName/Google Drive/
Mac: /Users/UserName/Google Drive/

If you can have the same UserName on both machines (I can’t change this on the work notebook for security and consistency reasons) then I think this should work. Just give it a try.

My workaround: I drag the required folder into the brain on each system seperately. TheBrain creates two folders with the same name while the working folder is yellow and the not working one from the other system is white. Agreed, it is not an elegant solution but it works.

Dominik

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 1, 2012 at 02:46 PM

In Windows there is an excellent utility called Junction http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx which can redirect folders, e.g. I have “My Documents/My Notes” pointing to “C:\local\dropbox\notes” and can thus maintain an identical folder structure along various machines.

I don’t know if you can thus create an identical path for a Mac machine, but I expect that you should, because Junction has its roots in Unix as does OS X.

Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>If you can
>have the same UserName on both machines (I can’t change this on the work notebook for
>security and consistency reasons) then I think this should work. Just give it a
>try.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 9, 2012 at 04:48 PM

Does anyone have a similar experience with Dominink to share from the realm of Windows <> Linux synchronisation, whether with the Brain or other cross-platform software?

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