: Recommendations on how to synchronize Photoshop actions, swatches, etc. across computers Is there any convenient way to synchronize Photoshop settings like keyboard shortcuts, actions, swatches, custom

@Cooney243

What about something a little more home-brewed:


Dropbox (or any cloud service) to keep the files at the ready
An rsync script set up on all your workstations


As you might imagine, there's plenty of rsync info over on SuperUser.

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@Pierce403

Hazel for Mac could automate a lot of the copying for you, which could be used in conjunction with Dropbox. Like all things that sync, there might be some situations where you'd want to merge or have some other logic happening, but it might not be possible with that setup — I think the best it could do is blindly copy based on date modified.
www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php www.dropbox.com
I haven't done that myself. It may cause issues, especially if Photoshop etc are open at the time (Hazel can probably account for this though, and only sync when they're closed).

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@Rambettina927

Some parts of Adobe's apps support aliasing. With InDesign, for instance, I linked a remote directory to the local scripts panel location.

Unfortunately, many of the settings do not allow for aliasing. In those cases you have to write a script to do the synchronization for you. You can use your cloud service to house the files and the script would do the copying for you.

I feel like I'm saying this a lot late but ... hopefully someone with CS6 can give us very good news on this front.

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