Dropbox with multiple machines

[erik-wgp]

I run nvAlt with plain text storage on Dropbox, no simplenote syncing. Is it a problem to run it like this on multiple Macs concurrently? There would not really be concurrent updates to individual notes.

If I understand it right, there is a database used for indexing (even in plain text storage mode), and so it would be a common case for a running nvAlt to find the DB updated by the other copy, and I guess a very rare but non-zero chance that two copies of nvAlt would update the DB at the same time.

I understand with any syncing wacky things can happen, but want to avoid anything known to be risky or problematic.

321 touches on this but it is old and not entirely clear what it means for my use case.

Thanks

[whatsnewsisyphus]

Yes there are still problems, I used it like that for a long time but then had a couple notes disappear or get mangled in the process where one machine unsynced it out of existence. I'm guessing what happened was that I had both computers open, as the laptop I often just put to sleep, added something important in the desktop, and laptop synced the previous state of the database up when I closed the app.

A suggestion would be to check if the file is the same before writing and ask whether you want to load the new version.

I'm currently using a different app because of this but would really prefer to come back to nvalt.