Sharing QuicKeys Abbreviations and Shortcuts between/among computers

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I've been using QuicKeys to speed up my blogging. "ahr" for example is an abbreviation for <A HREF=""> and "breg" is an abbreviation for Breguet.

Using Dropbox I was able to share my QuicKeys shortcuts and abbreviations between a Mac Pro and a MacBook. I basically made a new folder, ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys, and moved ~/Library/QuicKeys/Shortcuts and ~/Library/QuicKeys/Abbreviations to the new Dropbox folder.

cd ~/Library/QuicKeys
mkdir -p ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys
mv Shortcuts ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys
mv Abbreviations ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys

Then, on each machine, go into ~/Library/QuicKeys and move Shortcuts and Abbreviations into a backup and symbolically link the Dropbox files. To wit:

cd ~/Library/QuicKeys
mv Shortcuts Shortcuts.hold
mv Abbreviations Abbreviations.hold
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys/Shortcuts Shortcuts
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/QuicKeys/Shortcuts Abbreviations

Bingo. Restart QuicKeys on both machines and they will be synced ad infinitum.