On 11/22/15 08:52, Peter Davis wrote: > Thank you, Ed, but this raises a number of questions for me: > >> I ran into this same problem. The source of the problem appears to be >> that MobileOrg really, really wants to create the directory >> ~/Dropbox/Apps/MobileOrg. My workaround was to: >> >> 1. Delete any and all MobileOrg directories in Dropbox so you don't get >> confused as to which one is really the right one. > > The only MobileOrg directory is the one created by the app, > ~/Dropbox/apps/MobileOrg
I think the point Ed is making is that you should make sure you only have 1 "mobileorg" directory, which seems to be true for you. > >> 2. Bring up MobileOrg on your iPhone or iPad. Let it create the >> directory. > > Ok, done, I guess. > >> 3. Configure org on your desktop/laptop to export to >> ~/Dropbox/Apps/MobileOrg. > > How? This doesn't seem to be any of the variables specified in the > instructions at http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/doc/getting-started/using-dropbox/ > (setq org-mobile-directory "~/Dropbox/Apps/MobileOrg") >> 4. Now export from your desktop via org. > > Export what? Each file I want to sync? If I just save a copy of an org > file to ~/Dropbox/Apps/MobileOrg, will that have the same effect? No. export by issuing M-x org-mobile-push MobileOrg needs index.org and checksums.dat which the above function should create from org-mobile-files. > >> 5. You should now be able to sync on your mobile device. >> >> Note that is you want to sync to multiple mobile devices you need to >> repeat steps 1 and 2 for each device before you do anything from org on >> your desktop. Each of the MobileOrg instances will create the target >> directory when it initializes. > > I'm confused. All my .org files are already in Dropbox, sync'ed across a > number of different machines, so the directory structures and contents > should be identical (once Dropbox syncs them.) I use 2 separate folders: 1 for my org files and another for MobileOrg files, just to make my life easier and then I don't have to let MobileOrg near my org files. If I'm ever in doubt I can wipe the MobileOrg folder and recreate all it's files with org-mobile-push. > Thank you, > -pd Hope this helps, Dean
