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Subject: Re: Syncing methods for org files and org-mobile.el
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:18:03 -0500
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Friday, 13 Jan 2017 at 14:13, Anssi Saari wrote:
>> Between Emacsen files saved in Dropbox works fine (although I'd rather
>> not use Dropbox for anything) but on mobile Dropbox doesn't sync as far
>> as I know.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean but, in the Android version of mobileorg,
> syncing with Dropbox happens automatically with the frequency I specify.

I'm guessing he means that the syncing has to be event-driven, not
time-driven.  He wants the sync to happen just before emacs exits:
that way, everything is up to date. Time-driven syncing would be
racy.

I wonder if there is a before-exit hook that can be used.

-- 
Nick