Can TheBrain be synced without the cloud

Posted by Prion
Jan 20, 2014 at 05:38 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
I don’t know anything about Chronosync or rsync, so can’t comment on
>that. As to an external hard drive, I guess that could work. You will
>need to be sure to move or copy any external files you use into TheBrain
>(there’s an option to just link to the file, but obviously, if you do
>that you won’t have access to it on the other computer).

Thanks for that, I will play around with the demo to see if and indeed how well it will work.
>I posed your
>question to the help people at TheBrain.com and here was the response:
> >“It’s certainly possible, but we do not recommend syncing across
>anything except WebBrain as it has been known to cause corruptions in
>Brain databases.”
> >I don’t know if they might be exaggerating the possibility of
>corruptions because they want to get people to sign up for WebBrain, I’m
>not sure.

That is very thoughtful of yours, thanks a lot indeed. Of course, it is the answer one would expect but marketing blurb or real necessity, if TheBrain forced me to upload all I wanted to put into TheBrain then I’d look elsewhere. Maybe that is why they changed from PersonalBrain to just TheBrain…

> In truth, I’ve had a corruption of one of my brains using
>WebBrain, but I think that is related to also running the beta test
>version of the iOS app.

I certainly feel like MyBrain had some fairly major corruption issues to deal with on a regular basis. The real one, I mean.