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Once you're up and running on two Macs you can even automatically sync the settings between the two. See the following topic in Help>Search Yate Help:

Syncing Settings Between Multiple Copies of Yate

I'm having a bit of trouble with this.

I've created a plist file at a specified location, available to both Macs.

I've just made a variation of one of your actions on the first Mac & renamed it. I assume that when I quit that copy of Yate, it updates the plist file.

When I launch Yate on the second Mac, the actions list is not updated. (I got an error message the first time but I dismissed it without really taking proper notice & now I'm not getting the error message, it just launches without the updated Actions list.)

Just wondered if you could tell what I'm doing wrong?

Well I wanted a copy of Yate on two machines & I wanted to make sure that all the actions you've written for me are on both, as per my original question above.

My understanding was that this was entirely possible & that the help files you'd refrenced above were showing me how to do this: "Once you're up and running on two Macs you can even automatically sync the settings between the two."

I thought I'd understood correctly that by creating a plist file at a location that both Macs can see, each instance of Yate would reference this file to make sure they were the same, as per the help file in the screenshot.

Obviously I've gone completely off-piste somewhere which, let's face it, is nothing new. 😀

In summary, though, what I'm trying to achieve is a situation that when you send me a new action & I load it into Yate A it will automatically update in Yate B. Maybe our wires got crossed & that's not possible.

EDIT: In the first instance, I followed the steps you gave me to set up the second copy of Yate, so it was identical to the first from the start. The newer request was just to ensure that additional actions that get added to one get synced to the second on an ongoing basis.

To be more precise as to the reason, I tend to use Yate 1 for most music stuff & Yate 2 for renaming photos but I tend to add new actions to Yate 1 as that's the machine I'm usually on, hence the need to keep Yate 2 synced automatically. (Obviously I could manually add each new action you send me to both Macs but it gets a bit more complicated when I duplicate one of your actions to make a variation on one machine. I guess I could export it & then add it to the second Yate manually but I was just hoping there may be a process by which this could happen automatically.)

Cool, thanks. The screenshot above is from that very section.

I'll have a look at it later & get back to you.

LOL