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Hey. I've just bought Pythonista and I'm trying to set up sync between my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. From what I was able to see, the two most popular ways are either GitHub or Dropbox. Since GitHub doesn't allow private repos in the free version, I want to use Dropbox. However, I ran into the following problem: there are a lot of DB-to-Pythonista scripts out there, a lot of them haven't been updated for years, and I would like to avoid deleting my data accidentally.

So my question: what is the most stable Dropbox sync script available for Pythonista (and hopefully one that can be installed easily)?

Thanks in advance.

Nobody has any input? I am surprised. Is it that you guys don't use Dropbox sync? If so, what is your solution to sync code between the Mac/PC and Pythonista?

Have a look here:

http://www.devwithimagination.com/2014/05/11/pythonista-dropbox-sync
http://www.devwithimagination.com/2016/06/14/pythonista-dropbox-sync-revisited/

This works for me.

I have just tested in on pythonista 3

Thanks a lot! This script works great. One issue I have with it: if there is a Unicode character in a file name, there is something going wrong and the file gets re-uploaded - as if the script had problems comparing Unicode file names.

I have already changed the encoding to 'utf-8' when opening files, but I am not sure how to fix it for the actual file names. Python 3 supports Unicode out-of-the-box, so it might be a problem specific to Pythonista...