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How do I programmatically locate my Dropbox folder using C#?

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UPDATED SOLUTION Dropbox now provides an info.json file as stated here: https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/4584 If you don’t want to deal with parsing the JSON, you can simply use the following solution: var infoPath = @”Dropbox\info.json”; var jsonPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“LocalAppData”), infoPath); if (!File.Exists(jsonPath)) jsonPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“AppData”), infoPath); if (!File.Exists(jsonPath)) throw new Exception(“Dropbox could not be found!”); var dropboxPath … Read more

How to back up private branches in git

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I use the –mirror option and push to a personal backup repository: Add it as a remote: git remote add bak server:/path/to/backup/repo Do the backup: git push –mirror bak This will automatically make your backup repository look like your active one — branches will be created, deleted, updated (even forced/non-fastforwards) as needed. You can make … Read more

How Do I Sync My Sublime Text 3 Settings Using Dropbox?

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I’ve been syncing my Sublime settings for a while between multiple locations, all running OS X. I’ve had some minor problems. Finally, I decided to look into it which led me to what I would consider the authoritative description of how to sync Sublime setting between multiple machines using Dropbox: Sublime Package Control > Docs … Read more

AVPlayer “freezes” the app at the start of buffering an audio stream

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Don’t use playerItemWithURL it’s sync. When you receive the response with the url try this: AVURLAsset *asset = [[AVURLAsset alloc] initWithURL:url options:nil]; NSArray *keys = @[@”playable”]; [asset loadValuesAsynchronouslyForKeys:keys completionHandler:^() { [self.player insertItem:[AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:asset] afterItem:nil]; }];

Mercurial (and, I guess Git) with Dropbox: any drawbacks?

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I’d advise against it for the reasons stated above, but more strenuously stated. Both mercurial and git have their own protocols for moving changesets between repositories. These protocols are optimized/built for: efficiency consistency (never can you pull from a repo in a half-updated state) hooks/triggers — doing things on push/pull including quality (no tabs allowed, … Read more