NetNewsWire on a USB Drive
For those of us who can't sync our NetNewsWire data over the web due to firewalls or other infonazi roadblocks, there is hope.
I currently keep the contents of ~/Library/Application \Support/NetNewsWire on my USB thumbdrive. It does slow things down a little bit, but nothing major, and it allows me to keep everything current.
Creating an alias to the file is not enough. NNW will just crash on startup. Instead, create a symbolic link from the command line. Here's the instructions.
1. Copy your netnewswire application support folder from your home folder's library folder to your external storage of choice.
2. Open up terminal and input the following
ln -s /Volumes/USBdrive/NetNewsWire/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/NetNewsWire
That's it. For each additional machine you want to use this folder on, just delete the existing NetNewsWire folder from application support and do step number 2 again. Happy feedreading.
Update:
In theory, one could just write up a little Applescript to rsync the files to a USB drive and not have to worry about the linking, but it would be much more elegant if Brent would implement syncing to disk. Is no one asking for this?
Posted by Joe Mullins at September 22, 2005 03:37 PMI use my firewire iPod. I never found the usbkey to be fast enough. the iPod though, works like a charm!
Why don't they add a feature to look in your .Mac or some other FTP location, and sync with that? What if one day I want to use an iBook to surf, but another day I'm at my desk with another Mac, but no USB drive? Since it connects to the Internet anyway, why not add one more call to the user's web server space for a plist file or something?
Posted by: Jason Terhorst at October 2, 2005 03:41 PMUSB keys can be pretty slow. A USB iPod is a great choice for this.
J. Terhorst: NetNewsWire does do syncing with .Mac and FTP. It's in the preferences, in the syncing tab.
Posted by: Joe Mullins at October 4, 2005 08:16 AM
