Can TheBrain be synced without the cloud

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 20, 2014 at 10:01 PM

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>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.”

Here’s Harlan Hugh’s (CEO/CTO for TheBrain) response in this here forum 3.5 years ago:
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/7349

>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.

I’ve actually synced TheBrain files via Dropbox in the past with no problem even though I worked with two operating systems (Windows and Linux). That said, my ‘brains’ were quite simple, no more than 100 thoughts. Most importantly, I never risked opening the brains concurrently from more than one location, and always made sure that Dropbox had fully synced before opening a file.