Mackup symlink configuration

[anthonysexton]

There's every chance this didn't work for me because I don't really know what I am doing...

Working through the configuration and running Mackup had it backing up to Dropbox which I understand to be the default provider. After trying a couple of things, I went back to an older version of your repo and added the Mackup config symlink with $HOME in the path:

ln -s $HOME/.dotfiles/.mackup.cfg $HOME/.mackup.cfg

When re-running 'mackup backup', this then correctly detected the iCloud storage preference and was good to go.

[driesvints]

Thanks @anthonysexton. Did you follow https://github.com/driesvints/dotfiles?tab=readme-ov-file#setting-up-your-mac and Cd' into the dotfiles repo before running the fresh script?

[anthonysexton]

I thought I did. I would have run them a couple of times in the end as it stopped a couple of times for some reason.

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[driesvints]

bit odd. I'm not sure there's much here for me to move forward with. Are you happy with closing this one?

[anthonysexton]

Yep- I will give it another run when I set up the next clean mac and see what happens (with better notes!)

[imacrayon]

This might be related to Mackup no longer supporting new versions of MacOS: https://github.com/lra/mackup?tab=readme-ov-file#warning

[driesvints]

Thanks @imacrayon that's probably it. We should look into an alternative then..