Protip: Unsync the "Index" Folder of Sublime Text 3 from Dropbox

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 04:26:30 +0000

If you’re like me who uses both Sublime Text 3 and Dropbox, chances are you have your Sublime Text 3 folder synced in Dropbox.

I use my laptop as my primary workstation so most of the time it’s docked and charged. Occasionally when I do use it on battery power however I notice the extremely poor battery life - typically only 2-3 hours.

Eventually I realised the power consumption was caused by Sublime Text 3 generating a temp file in its "Index" folder every second or so, and that triggers Dropbox to do the syncing - causing it to take 40-50% of CPU constantly.

So, here’s a simple fix. Click on the Dropbox icon, then click on the gear icon and select "Preferences…", select the "Advanced" tab, and select "Change Settings…" for Selective Sync to bring up the column-based file dialog, now simply find and untick the "Index" folder and you’re all set. :)

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[Ruby] Releasing Ssync - An Optimised S3 Sync Tool Using the Power of Unix!

ifredwu@gmail.com (Fred Wu) — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:15:41 +0000

At Envato we have a few dozen sites residing on multiple servers. The data on a portion of the servers need to be regularly backed up to Amazon S3.

The Envato Mad Scientist Ryan Allen has worked on a script called Sir Sync-A-Lot which syncs the data to S3. This was done after evaluating a bunch of scripts including s3sync.

Today I turned Ryan’s original script into a little Rubygem and added a bit more features.

Go check out the source code!

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Protip: Unsync the "Index" Folder of Sublime Text 3 from Dropbox

[Ruby] Releasing Ssync - An Optimised S3 Sync Tool Using the Power of Unix!