How to use Webbla with MobileMe or DropBox

If you want to access your bookmarks form different Mac’s you have to move your bookmark database in the cloud or on a server in your local network.

Webbla don’t offer the functionality to change the location of the bookmark database by itself but you can do so by using a symbolic link.

Step1)

The first thing you have to do is to move the folder containing the database to the folder you would like to use.

The bookmark database folder of Webbla is located in

~/Library/Application Support/

and named “Webbla“.

You must create the link on the enclosing folder and not on the database directly.

Step2)

After you have copied the folder containing the database open the Terminal application and change the directory to the “Application Support” folder in the user library.

The easiest way to do this is to select the “Application Support” folder in Finder and to drag it on the terminal window and press return. If you have more experience with the Terminal you can also use cd to navigate to the folder.

Step3)

Now create the symbolic link by entering in the terminal

ln -s /Volumes/Snow\ Leopard/Users/marc/Desktop/Webbla Webbla

and pressing return.

(ln -s [path to the new location of the folder]  [name of the link])

The path /Volumes/Snow\ Leopard/Users/marc/Desktop/Webbla must be modified  from you to point to the Webbla folder you have moved. In the example above the folder was moved to the Desktop.

Result)

If you have done all well the symbolic link is created in the “Application Support” folder and will look like this.

Now you should be able to start Webbla as you did it before. That’s all.

Please note that the database of  Webbla is based on SQLite and thereby not multiuser capable.

We strongly recommend to access the database only from one Mac at the same time. If you try to access the database from multiple Mac’s  at the same time this can result in loss of data or database corruption.

Please make a copy of your database before you start creating the symbolic link.

We can’t give any support and will not be able to reconstruct the database file if it is corrupted.

Marc