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		<title>Syncing Filezilla Sites across Computers with Dropbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Anselmo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often find myself editing websites on several different computers.  One of the more tedious things is keeping all my FTP settings updated across them.  I&#8217;d start development on a new site at work, then try to continue from home, only to find I&#8217;d forgotten to write down the connection credentials.  Alternately, even if I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I often find myself editing websites on several different computers.  One of the more tedious things is keeping all my FTP settings updated across them.  I&#8217;d start development on a new site at work, then try to continue from home, only to find I&#8217;d forgotten to write down the connection credentials.  Alternately, even if I did have them on hand, entering them for each FTP client is a waste of time.  Dropbox to the rescue!  Here&#8217;s how:</p>
<p><strong>1. Find your site manager file</strong><br />
Filezilla keeps all of your sites and access credentials in an XML file called &#8220;sitemanager.xml&#8221; Here are the most likely locations:<br />
Windows 7 &amp; Vista &#8211; C:\Users\Yourname\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml<br />
Mac OS X &#8211; /users/Yourname/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml<br />
Linux &#8211; /home/Yourname/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml</p>
<p><strong>2. Back it up</strong><br />
Just in case something goes wrong in the next few steps.  Copy the file and name it something else, perhaps &#8220;sitemanager.xml.backup&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>3. Move sitemanager.xml to Dropbox</strong><br />
I keep a folder in dropbox called &#8220;Settings&#8221; which I use for program files that I sync.  Place it where it makes sense to you, just remember that location for the next step.  Note, you want to <em>move</em> the file, not <em>copy</em> it.  It cannot still exist in the filezilla folder, or the next step may not work.</p>
<p><strong>4. Make a soft link from Dropbox back to your Filezilla folder</strong><br />
Filezilla will still look in it&#8217;s default place for the sitemanger file.  You&#8217;re going to trick it and point it to the file you have snyc&#8217;d on Dropbox.  You&#8217;ll need to open up a Command Prompt (Windows) or a terminal (OS X/Linux) for this step.  This is what the commands looked like for me, you&#8217;ll need to adjust the file paths as necessary.  Note, on Windows, you enter the new link first, then the existing target, and on OS X &amp; Linux, it is the opposite order.</p>
<p>Windows:<br />
mklink &#8220;C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\FileZilla\sitemanager.xml&#8221; &#8220;C:\Users\peter\My Dropbox\Settings\sitemanager.xml&#8221;</p>
<p>OS X:<br />
ln -s /users/peter/Dropbox/Settings/sitemanager.xml /users/peter/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml</p>
<p>Linux:<br />
ln -s /home/peter/Dropbox/Settings/sitemanager.xml /home/peter/.filezilla/sitemanager.xml</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it!  Fire up Filezilla, and you should see the same site settings now on all of your computers.  Note, if you use &#8220;Synchronized Browsing&#8221;, you&#8217;ll need to create separate bookmarks under each site for each computer, as the local path to your files will be different depending on your computer.</p>
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