Sync Coda with Dropbox

While there are a number of articles out there on how to do this, they all felt overly confusing for what should be a pretty simple task. 

  1. Quit Coda on your “master” machine, the one that has the coda settings you want to share.
  2. In dropbox create a new folder called “Library”, and a folder called “Preferences” inside that
  3. Move the Coda preferences file into the new Preferences folder you just created
     mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist 
  4. Create a symbolic link connecting the old location to the new file in dropbox wiht this command in terminal:
    ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Coda.plist
  5. Create another new folder inside the Library folder you created in step 2, and name this folder “Application Support”
  6. Move all the contents the Coda file inside the library -> application support folder to this new application support folder inside your dropbox
  7. Create another symbolic link for this folder:
    ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/Application\ Support/Coda ~/Library/Application\ Support/Coda
  8. Repeat steps 4 and 7 for any macs you want to share the Coda Preferences with

That’s it!  your synced and ready to go