Synchronising your Sublime Text 2 preferences with Dropbox

January 27 2012 • 1 min read

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I use Sublime Text 2 both at work and at home, and it’s hard to manually keep my settings/packages in sync.

I decided to use Dropbox to keep my packages/preferences for Sublime Text 2 in one place, and then I created a symbolic link from the Dropbox directory to the Application Support directory for Sublime Text 2:

Mac OS (and Linux)

ln -sfF "~/Dropbox/Application Settings/Sublime Text 2/Packages/" "~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages"

This command will create a symbolic link of the Packages directory stored in my Dropbox in the Sublime Text 2 directory, meaning that any computer I set up in this way will use the same settings/packages.

Windows

mklink /D "C:\Users\Max\AppData\Roaming\Sublime Text 2\Packages" "C:\Users\Max\Dropbox\Application Settings\Sublime Text 2\Packages"

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Max Glenister