Synchronizing Notes

If you work on multiple PCs, e.g at home and at work, you will probably want your notes to be automatically
synchronized. CintaNotes doesn't synchronize notes directly, but it plays well together with free online
synchronization services such as DropBox.
The recommended way to synchronize notes using DropBox is the following:
1. Put CintaNotes folder outside of DropBox folder (e.g. in "C:\Apps\CintaNotes").
2. Run CintaNotes and choose the File / Notebook... menu command.
3. In the "Notebook File" box, change the path so that it points to a file inside of your synchronized
folder (e.g. "C:\My Dropbox\CintaNotesData\cintanotes.db"). It's ok if the path doesn't exist yet.
4. Make sure that the "Enable external notebook synchronization" flag is checked.
5. Check the "Relocate current notebook" flag if you don't want to create a new notebook but would
rather move the current one.
6. Press OK.
Replicate this setup on each PC. That's it! Now your notes will be automatically synchronized. Configuring for
other synchronization services like LiveMesh or SugarSync is similar.
If you've installed CintaNotes into the "C:\Program Files" folder, the files
cintanotes.db and cintanotes.settings will be located at the following path:
C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Program Files\CintaNotes\. This is
because according to Microsoft guidelines applications shouldn't write into the
Program Files folder (with the obvious exception for installers).
Putting CintaNotes folder inside of DropBox folder is NOT recommended because:

Backup files will constantly be "conflicted";

You won't be able to have separate settings on different PCs.

If you don't care about independent settings (e.g. you use same fonts and screen resolution on each PC), the
alternative way would be to put CN folder inside DropBox, but take the backup folder out using the
"backup.folder" parameter of the cintanotes.settings file.
You don't have to close CintaNotes for your notes to be synchronized. After the period of inactivity specified
in the "Release file lock after" field of the "Notebook Parameters" dialog, CintaNotes releases the database file
lock. But please allow some time (usually about 2-10 minutes, depending on your internet connection) for full
synchronization cycle.
Please note also that if you take notes offline, or shutdown the computer right after you've creates some
notes, these last notes won't be synchronized, and if you go and take notes on another PC, conflicts might
arise. With DropBox, you will notice them with the appearance of the "conflicted copy" database files
alongside of cintanotes.db. If you see these files, you will need to merge them back into your main notes
database.
To do that use the File / Import command on this conflicted file. As of version 1.1C and later, the import
command filters out duplicate notes automatically, so that you will get the notes that you don't have. This
handles the most frequent case of added notes, but in case of modified or deleted notes you will still have to
delete the unnecessary notes by hand.