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16. November 2011 at 10:46
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An update to the paper-management-solution sketched here.
In the meantime, iOS 5 has been released and with that came iCloud, Apples way of “going cloud” (Apple, Wikipedia). iDisk will be discontinued, so in the near future, I’ll need to change the way I sync papers to my iPad.
iCloud can sync both attribute-value-storage and files. GoodReader recently got an update and now can access iCloud storage. And there is a way to access the iCloud storage on a Mac and put files in it: The directory Library/Mobile Documents (in your home directory) is synced to all the devices*. So I configured BibDesk to write the papers to sync to this directory and re-ran auto filing for all papers. It worked, in principle. I can open GoodReader on the iPad (and presumably iPhone) and see all the documents of my iCloud folder.
There are, however, two caveats: 1. There is no way to automatically download the entire iCloud folder into GoodReader. The files are shown, but I need to tap them all manually, to download them. And 2., the use of the Mobile Documents-folder isn’t officially documented by Apple and therefore, this may be changed in the future or reworked completely. So, I wasn’t happy about this solution.
Using MacFuse and MacFusion, you can mount any server with a SSH access to your computer so that it behaves like a regular directory. This way, I can let BibDesk write the files onto a Linux server. GoodReader can then use the same auto sync feature that we used before with WebDav and iDisk with SFTP. Boom.
* Well, not to all of them. My Mac at home doesn’t have this directory, although iCloud is enabled and seems to be working file.
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