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Brian Y

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Oct 21, 2012
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Hi all!

Just a quick question, to see if anyone has come up with a solution yet. I have 3 machines - home laptop/desktop and work laptop - and I used to have my books in iTunes synced across all 3 devices with dropbox. Worked like a charm.

Now, however, the books have moved to iBooks - and the files themselves have moved to the containers folder. This is all great, and syncs perfectly for books bought in the iBooks store. But for books bought elsewhere, or for PDFs, there's no way of syncing between computers that I can see.

I tried moving the containers folder to dropbox, and symlinking it back on every machine, which should, in theory, work. However, iBooks would just refuse to open, and there would be a load of sandbox problems in the Console log.

It's not such a problem for my iDevices, because they all sync from the same single iTunes library on just one computer, but I'd quite like a way of having my books/pdfs available to read on every computer. Any ideas? :)
 
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