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.
>> >
>> >
>
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