roger.carruthers

Anyone else here using Dropbox to keep Max projects synced between 2 or more machines (hello, Stefan!) ?

I've been doing this for a while, and on the whole it works well, but I've been getting a few crashes lately when opening patches on one machine when it was last updated on the other. 

More specifically, I think it's related to loading bpatchers that have been modified - 

 you open the parent patch after any of the bpatchers in it have been modified on a different machine, Max crashes (crash report attached) - if you then re-open the patch, it's no problem.

I've put my /dropbox/current_patches folder in Max's search path (bad idea? Seems to work) on both machines, and I've found that this works for everything except graphic files (eg. pictslder, matrixctl), which I have to put into a local folder in Max's search path,or the next time you open the patch on a different machine, the graphics will not load, which again, is not quite what i'd have expected,

Anyone else here using Dropbox to keep Max projects synced between 2 or more machines (hello, Stefan!) ?
 I've been doing this for a while, and on the whole it works well, but I've been getting a few crashes lately when opening patches on one machine when it was last updated on the other. 
 More specifically, I think it's related to loading bpatchers that have been modified - the first time you open the parent patch after any of the bpatchers in it have been modified on a different machine, Max crashes (crash report attached) - if you then re-open the patch, it's no problem.
 I've put my /dropbox/current_patches folder in Max's search path (bad idea? Seems to work) on both machines, and I've found that this works for everything except graphic files (eg. pictslder, matrixctl), which I have to put into a local folder in Max's search path,or the next time you open the patch on a different machine, the graphics will not load, which again, is not quite what i'd have expected,
Cheers
Roger


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roger.carruthers wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 16:36

I mainly use it as a backup, as I can't afford two machines...

I've put my /dropbox/current_patches folder in Max's search path (bad idea? Seems to work) on both machines

I created a symbolic unix link of my folder into the Dropbox. Which works fine.

I would not expect Max to recognize a changed file if its updated from a different computer. I would suspect that while its updated, it might be in an non finished state, and if you load it during this change, maybe something is going weird. I can't imagine that the method itself creates problems...

roger.carruthers wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 16:36Anyone else here using Dropbox to keep Max projects synced between 2 or more machines (hello, Stefan!) ?

roger.carruthers wrote on Thu, 28 May 2009 16:36I've put my /dropbox/current_patches folder in Max's search path (bad idea? Seems to work) on both machines

I created a symbolic unix link of my folder into the Dropbox. Which works fine.
I would not expect Max to recognize a changed file if its updated from a different computer. I would suspect that while its updated, it might be in an non finished state, and if you load it during this change, maybe something is going weird. I can't imagine that the method itself creates problems...

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