From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Gardella Subject: Re: Org, Mobile Org, & DropBox Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:31:46 -0400 Message-ID: <877gt852j1.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Ken, Ken Mankoff writes: > Hi, > > I'm interested in using Mobile Org (on 2 devices) & DropBox. However, > the mobile devices are read-only. > > Do I need to do the org-mobile-push and have the files move from ~/org > to ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg, or can I just store all my org files in > ~/Dropbox/MobileOrg and not worry about syncing, since the mobile apps > are read-only? > > Thanks, > > -k. > > For your use case, I think you would still probably want to run `org-mobile-push' and set up the `org-mobile-directory' variable to something inside your dropbox shared directory, because org-mobile-push is responsible for generating the agenda views (agendas.org) and index (index.org) upon which MobileOrg depends. Even in a read-only mode, MobileOrg will complain and not display your entries correctly if it can't find these. -- -WGG I use grml (http://grml.org/)