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I run Xcode on both my laptop and desktop. I'm constantly tweaking my setup with regards to key bindings.

Rather than try to get both configurations identical by hand, is there any way to create the configuration on one computer and then share it via dropbox (for example) for the other to use? Perhaps by symlinking the laptop's configuration file to one stored on dropbox?

Very curious how others handle this situation.

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Most of your Xcode settings are in the Preferences file at:

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist

This doesn't include templates.

Paul Lynch
And then an automator or apple script utility to copy the dropbox version to the library?
JoePasq
Do you know whether there is anything in the plist that is computer specific, that would make it improper to share across multiple computers?I'll try syncing the two when I get home tonight. Thanks for the advice on the file.
Martytoof
@JoePasq I was thinking of just moving the com.apple.Xcode.plist to ~/Dropbox, then ln -s ~/Dropbox/com.apple.Xcode.plist ~/Library/Preferences/Don't know whether that would be less safe than just running an automator script to copy back and forth.
Martytoof
Doesn't look like symlinking it will work. It seems that Xcode just replaces the symlink with a static file when it writes to it. Thanks anyway.
Martytoof