<![CDATA[Jay George]]> – Blog / Dropbox https://jaygeorge.co.uk/blog Thoughts and tutorials about web design. en https://jaygeorge.co.uk <![CDATA[Setting up MAMP and Dropbox]]> https://jaygeorge.co.uk/blog/setting-up-mamp-and-dropbox https://jaygeorge.co.uk/blog/setting-up-mamp-and-dropbox I realise that there are quite a few tutorials out there that show you how to set up MAMP on your Mac, take this great video series by Chris Coyier for example - First Moments with MAMP, but since these days there a few people that DON'T design on multiple computers, I set about trying to figure out a way to synchronise my local WordPress databases with across multiple computers with Dropbox.

I found a great article on a blog called StuckTogetherWithTape (update 19th September 2020: it appears this link is no longer available but it used to be stucktogetherwithtape.com/blog/2009/12/sync-web-dev-with-mamp-and-dropbox) on how to do this and I'll walk you through this method in the video. Even if you don't work on multiple computers you should do this for backup purposes anyway, just in case your hard drive crashes. In this tutorial, we'll go through...

  1. Briefly why you should be using MAMP

  2. Changing the preferences in MAMP

  3. Backing up your website files

  4. Using Symbolic Link to copy the actual WordPress database to Dropbox

The link to the Symbolic Linker that I mention in the video is here... Symbolic linker.

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