sync and automator

[lonnie]

I only use dotmac for the sync feature and I decided that my $99 can be better spent. I quickly made an automator app that syncs for me to a server that I access between home and work. I made 1 app to upload the files for Safari and Address book and 1 app to download them. Does anyone know where Safari stores RSS feeds? I would like to try and sync my feeds too - the actual data of the feeds not the bookmarks. Does that make sense?

[Ginamos]

I think, Safari RSS feed data is held in a SQLLite database called Database3 in User Library->Syndication.

[lonnie]

Thanks

[philbowell]

This is interesting. Does it actually sync the Address Book?

I'd be quite interested to give this a try, particularly if you get it working with Mail's RSS in Leopard.

[lonnie]

I thought this was working but Im having an issue with the "download" side.

I've got the files to sync everything (RSS thanks to Ginamos) - let me outline what I'm trying.

The download side:

1. select the previous files in a folder called "sync"

2. move them to the trash

3. pull a ZIP file off my server that contains all the needed files.

4. open the ZIP file

5. select the needed Safari files

6. copy the file (with overwrite) to User Library/Safari

remaining steps: repeat for the other files to their locations.

The problem comes in with step 5 (and remaining steps that are the same) - you would think that when I save a location in Automator it would remember the location, right? The workflow works one time. When the files are replaced (when I sync again) automator doesn't recoginze where the files are - even though they are in the same place and are the same name.

I know I can manually move them where they go in about 10 seconds everyday, but where is the fun in that? Help me.

[mdmunoz]

Try forcing the Automator script to organize the contents of the zip into folders within the sync folder (one folder for the RSS files, for example). Then in the "download" part, use Filter Finder Items to get the folder you are looking for and Get Folder Contents to get the relevant files. That way, you can get the right files every time and a nice folder structure in case something goes wrong and you want to do it manually (you don't have to search through a huge mess of random files).

[lonnie]

That's a good idea.

When I get this all figured out I'll post the workflow if anyone wants it, then you can just configure your folders (etc) based on the workflow.

[lonnie]

Well it took some playing around with the settings but it appears to be working. For whatever reason some things that should work didn't. ex: find finder items - some things wouldn't work when searching by name but would work with searching by extension, and vice versa.

Here's the workflows - I'm syncing Safari items, Safari RSS, and the address book.

[lonnie]

I refined the workflow some more - there was a hiccup with the timing. I added a pause to slow it down a bit and added growl notifications. Same link as above.

[mdmunoz]

Does that Growl notification action come with Growl, or did I get it from you just now? Because I didn't know there was one.