Re: Variable `org-mobile-directory` must point to an existing directory. Multiplatform setup, howto

[Jonathan Leech-Pepin <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com>]

Orlando,

Is your username on the machine User?

If it isn't you'll have to change "User" to whatever your account name is.

If it is the right username, then I'm not sure why it wouldn't be
detecting the correct path.

Regards,

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Orlando López D.
<orlando.1982@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan,
>
> Thanks for your attention to this matter.
>
> After doing an evaluation, I am getting the correct path on my Windows
> machine, which is "c:/Users/User/Dropbox/MobileOrg"
>
> What do you recommend that I try next?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Jonathan Leech-Pepin
> <jonathan.leechpepin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think by default Windows tries to treat C:\ as ~ when it isn't
>> explicitly defined beforehand.
>>
>> If you evaluate the following, does it give the same Windows path as
>> to the actual folder?
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>>  (expand-file-name "~/Dropbox/MobileOrg")
>> #+end_src
>>
>> If not you'll want to try one of the following:
>>
>> 1) Set the Windows Environment Variable "HOME" to the desired location
>> (C:\Users\<username> for example)
>> 2) Move your Dropbox folder to the location shown by the above code
>> snippet, it should then recognize it.
>> 3) Replace =~/Dropbox/= in your configuration with the full path to
>> the Dropbox folder.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:
>> > On 28/05/12 15:45, Orlando wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Ian Barton<lists<at>  wilkesley.net>  writes:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> On 26/05/12 20:00, Orlando López D. wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I configured emacs org-mode on a Mac, working properly, having my org
>> >>>> files and MobileOrg file within my DropBox folder ( ~/DropBox/ ).
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Now, I will like to get my emacs setup working properly on my Windows
>> >>>> box. I have been able to get it working in terms of reading my .emacs
>> >>>> file and emacs.d folder, shared through simlink config.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Everything seems to be working properly, except that when I  want to
>> >>>> execute org-mobile-pull or org-mobile-push on Windows, I get the
>> >>>> following error: "Variable `org-mobile-directory` must point to an
>> >>>> existing directory "
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The problem seems to be that emacs isn't configured to read or point
>> >>>> to
>> >>>> the org-mobile directory , per the paths set in .emacs (eg. =
>> >>>> "~/DropBox/ ...........").
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Running on Linux I found I needed the following in my .emacs:
>> >>>
>> >>> (setq org-directory "~/dropbox/org/org_files")
>> >>> (setq org-mobile-directory "~/dropbox/MobileOrg")
>> >>> (setq org-mobile-inbox-for-pull
>> >>> "~/dropbox/org/org_files/tasks/org_inbox.org")
>> >>>
>> >>> Have you got all these set? Somewhere there is a possible bug where a
>> >>> misleading error message gets displayed referring to
>> >>> org-mobile-directory, when it means org-directory. I keep meaning to
>> >>> try
>> >>> and track it down.
>> >>>
>> >>> Ian.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ian, thanks for your e-mail.
>> >>
>> >> I have the following configuration, which doesn´t seems to defer in
>> >> concept with
>> >> yours:
>> >>
>> >> ;; Set to the location of your Org files on your local system
>> >> (setq org-directory "~/DropBox/org")
>> >> ;; Set to the name of the file where new notes will be stored
>> >> (setq org-mobile-inbox-for-pull "~/DropBox/org/flagged.org")
>> >> ;; Set to<your Dropbox root directory>/MobileOrg.
>> >> (setq org-mobile-directory "~/Dropbox/MobileOrg")
>> >>
>> >> Which could be the reason why Windows isn´t locating the path to the
>> >> existing
>> >> directory? Do I need to have any specific configuration on .emacs for
>> >> Mac
>> >> and
>> >> for Windows?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Orlando,
>> >
>> > I haven't used emacs on Windows for a long time. However, I don't know
>> > if
>> > Windows understands the concept of "~/", unless there is some emacs
>> > configuration that allows this. Have you tried setting the paths
>> > explicitly
>> > e.g. (setq org-directory "C:/DropBox/org")
>> >
>> > Ian.
>> >
>> >
>
>