To do this, you’ll first need to create new journal notes, markup, study notes, and topic notes files in your Dropbox folder. I strongly suggest backing up your files before you do this, but a strong backup strategy ought to be part of your computing experience already!
#E sword how to#
What I didn’t adequately cover in that article is how to reset e-Sword to write your personal study information to that folder. I had written about this much in my original post. Open e-Sword, click Options – Resource, click the little file folder icon in the lower right corner and select the e-Sword folder you created above. Move the Bible (*.bblx), commentary (*.cmtx), dictionary (*.dctx), devotion (*.devx), and topic (*.topx) files to that directory and let Dropbox synchronize them. To set e-Sword up to look for Bibles, commentaries, and the like from a Dropbox file directory, first create the directory in your Dropbox folder. Setup is just a bit different for those resources. But it works just as well for your personal study information, like verse markups, study notes, journal notes, and topic notes. I had been using this feature to synchronize downloaded resources, like commentaries, Bibles, and topic files. This allows you to synchronize those e-Sword resources across multiple computers using Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, SkyDrive, or another similar service. Based on a comment that was made on that post today, I’ve updated the information and wanted to refresh the post.Į-Sword now lets you open most resources in a file location other than the e-Sword program file, typically C:\Program Files (x86)\e-Sword. Some time ago, I wrote about synchronizing e-Sword resources across multiple computers using Dropbox based on a change implemented with version 9 of e-Sword.