~/Dropbox/SketchUp/SketchUp-sync/Materials
Move the entire folder to somewhere on your Dropbox. Make a backup copy of your original SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/ folder. This could take up quite a lot of space on your Dropbox (and time to upload) if you have a lot of materials and plugins. The one that contains PrivatePreferences.json and SharedPreferences.json along with Components, Materials, Plugins, Templates, Styles, etc. ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/ With 2 you might get away with it, especially if you’re careful to only have SketchUp open on one computer at any time. With 40, there would be conflicts with multiple computers trying to read/write the same files. This wouldn’t be a good idea for 40 computers, but you said it was just 2 in your original post. What you could do was move the entire SketchUp folder to Dropbox then symlink the folder and that wouldn’t get overwritten. Yeah, you’re right, SketchUp overwrites the file at startup. Thanks but it looks like SU just overwrites the json files on startup They could both be trying to access it at the same time. Having two copies of SketchUp open at the same time could be a really bad idea. I’ve tested without an internet connection and SketchUp opens up reading the preferences correctly no problems. If you select it and press ⌘R(or right-click ‘show original’) it will show you the original file (on Dropbox). If you do “Get Info”, you’ll see the path of the original file. If you look at the file it creates in the Finder, it will look like an alias, with the curved arrow on its icon. Open Terminal on your MacBook and paste exactly the same comand again, press return. Ln -s ~/Dropbox/SketchUp/SharedPreferences.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/SketchUp\ 2020/SketchUp/SharedPreferences.json Open Terminal on your iMac, paste this command and press return: So now at this point you’ll have two copies: one backup and the moved copy in Dropbox. If you move it somewhere else, adjust the paths in the commands later in this post. ~/Dropbox/SketchUp/SharedPreferences.json You can type the same commands on both computers if you use the tilde character (~) to represent your home folder, it will be expanded to the correct path for your home directory.Ĭhoose which of the two computers has the most up to date preferences and make a backup copy of your SharedPreferences.json file, then move the SharedPreference.json to your Dropbox. Try this at your own risk, don’t blame me if you break something.Ī symbolic link isn’t really in any language, it’s just a command you’d type in the terminal, a bit like creating an alias in the Finder. Is that possible? I am pretty versed in PHP but nothing like C or whatever you would use for how would a symlink work and what language would it be in… never done that before either!īut could a ruby loader script go into the prefs files and tweak the how would a symlink work and what language would it be in… never done that before either! Translate agnostic paths again to local pathsĬopy/overwrite the laptops local Prefs file. Monitor shared Prefs file/execute on change , copy agnostified Prefs file to the shared (Dropbox) location. “agnostify” the paths which currently are hard-linked to local locations like: /Users/imac/Library/Application Support/ which won’t work on the laptop which is /Users/macbook/Library/Application Support/ 
I would need the shell script on both machines and it would have to do the following: OK, I’m not sure shell script would work. If the cloud service is unavailable SketchUp is likely not to load (ie lockup) or to crash during load. I have to disagree about the symbolic link idea.
But syncing needs to be done whilst SketchUp is not running as it overwrites the json files when it closes from it’s own memory.
(2) Copy the "SharedPreferences.json" file to a likewise accessible location, and copy to whichever computer’s User Application Support directory that needs syncing.Ī shell script could make this syncing easier.
Online SketchUp User Guide: Exporting and importing SketchUp preferences.(1) Export a "Preferences.dat" file to a location that is accessible to both computers (like a Cloud sync service as McGordon suggests.) Then Import this file whenever you need to sync the shortcuts. You have two choices for “sharing” the shortcuts. There is no preference override to point SketchUp toward other locations for the two preference json files. This file is saved into the User AppData path on Windows, and the user ApplicationSupport path on Mac. For SketchUp 2018 and higher, the shortcuts are saved into the "Settings" object of the "SharedPreferences.json" file.
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