Migrate Sublime Text settings files from Dropbox to iCloud (updated for ST4)

I’m using Sublime Text for couple od years. I’ve created several useful macros in it and in general it’s a very good text editor for me. In past i had synchronization od preferences via Dropbox on my computers. But Dropbox changes term of use, so I must solve this with iCloud.

Memo for myself, if I need to make this again in the future…

On the first computer, I set the sync directory to iCloud. First, create a new directory on iCloud, then move my Sublime Text 3 settings and preferences into it, and then link this local destination to my iCloud folder.

UPDATE – for Sublime Text 4

For Sublime Text version 4 skip the number in the path.

# make new directory on iCloud
mkdir ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/Sublime\ Text\

# get in application preferences folder
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/
# for Sublime Text 4 without a number
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text/

# move User data for syncing do iCloud
mv Installed\ Packages/User/ ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/Sublime\ Text\

# link this directory on iCloud to the app directory
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/Sublime\ Text/User

On my other computers, I used these commands. Go into the Sublime Text Packages directory, remove the old User directory and then link it to synced folder. 

# get in application preferences folder
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/
# for Sublime Text 4 without a number
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text/Packages/

# remove folder User
rm -r User

# link to User folder on iCloud
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Sync/Sublime\ Text/User

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