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Seamless, automatic, “dotfile” sync to iCloud.

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Swift 97.75% Objective-C 2.25%

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workbench's Introduction

Workbench

Seamless, automatic, “dotfile” sync to iCloud.

Workbench is an effective way to continuously and securely back up your “dotfiles” so they can be easily restored when you clean install macOS and sign back into your iCloud account.

At this time we are not a multiple computer synchronization solution, but this feature is not far off: the fundamentals are there.

Support mxcl

Hey there, I’m Max Howell, a prolific producer of open source and probably you already use some of it (I created brew). I work full-time on open source and it’s hard; currently I earn less than minimum wage. Please help me continue my work, I appreciate it 🙏🏻

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Privacy / Security

The binary we provide is signed with our Apple Developer account thus your data is stored in the database we maintain. However, Apple do not give us any access to your data and according to their documentation the data is encrypted and private to your iCloud account.

We assume no liability for your data.

The app has no analytics and obviously we do not transmit your data anywhere but iCloud.

Feel free to compile your own copy of Workbench that is signed with your own Apple account.

Current caveats

Only works with one computer.
Conflict resolution is manual and not assisted (you can choose to upload what is here or download what is there).
No automatic support for directories.
Doesn’t remember file permissions.
We provide no revision control.
We only support iCloud as the synchronization target.
Sync’d files can only be from your home directory.
Maximum file size is 1 MB (this is a CloudKit limitation).

If you want these caveats removed please donate to my Patreon; or PR welcome!

Installation

Releases.

Our binaries are notarized, runtime‐hardened and update automatically.

What’s with the name?

I have future plans for this tool which are more general.

Icon Credit

Icons made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com licensed under CC 3.0 BY.

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workbench's Issues

Symlinks don't work

If app opens with no Internet, must be restarted to start working

Show a diff only when triaging conflicts

Doesn't work on High Sierra :(

Store file permissions as well

Workbench has forgotten which files are stored and errors on trying to readd them.

So if I run "Add default files" for each file it shows this pop-up:

Which apparently at some point it's gotten confused about what actually is uploaded to iCloud but it can't use that error to redownload them?

Workbench rarely works on startup -- quitting and restarting the app always fixes it.

Whenever I restart my computer, Workbench seems to forget all of my files, though it doesn't forget my brew installs for some reason.

If I quit the app and then start it up again, it works like a charm. There must be some condition of my mac starting up that causes this?

This is still an amazing app!

Exception in notification on launch

I downloaded the 1.0.5 release and launched the .app. When I do so, I immediately get a macOS 10.14.3 notification.

As a caveat, I don't use iCloud:

...but was interested in your tweet relating to homebrew integration.

Detect iCloud is off etc.

Download button not working in some conditions

Thanks for this awesome app.
I found out that when there’s a conflict between locally stored file and the remote version, the download button would not do anything. I don’t know if it’s unable to replace the local file with the remote version or it fails to download the remote version.

The window closing when trying to select file in hidden folder

Trying to pick the folder on /Library/blabla/, but the finder windows close when picking the Library folder: https://take.ms/pUyHH
Catalina 10.15

How is this different from mackup?

https://github.com/lra/mackup

Color issue on High Sierra

Filenames are not visible to me.

I'm upgrading to Mohave, so it's okay to just drop High Sierra support.

Or does this happens on Mohave, too?

Dark footer difficult to read against light wallpaper

The contrast and legibiliity of the text and buttons is pretty poor in dark mode when used against a light background.

In light mode, though, everything is perfectly legible.

Any improvement on the legibility would be appreciated, though I'm not sure how configurable these things from AppKit are. Thank you for all your hard work!