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I have several computers where my books and documents are stored in identical file structure. I sync these books with Dropbox (at most the parent folder where Dropbox is located is different, but I can try to make its name the same, if necessary).

I use Okular to read documents. Okular remembers the last page I read.

Is there any way to sync particular Okular config files so that it remembers the page I last read across computers?

Archisman Panigrahi
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Evince cannot do this, and you will need Okular. First, install it with sudo apt install okular, and set it as the default PDF reader.

Okular saves information about the last read page in ~/.local/share/okular/docdata.

We want to sync this directory. I will use MEGAsync, but you are free to choose your favorite cloud storage service.

Create a new directory okular_docdata inside MEGAsync directory, and symlink them.

(Of course, you can set the name and location of the symlinked directory according to your preference.)

cd /path/to/MEGAsync
mkdir okular_docdata
mv ~/.local/share/okular /path/to/MEGAsync/okular_docdata/
ln -s /path/to/MEGAsync/okular_docdata/ /home/username/.local/share/okular

Repeat the same in all the computers.

Afterwards, your reading progress will be synced when you run the MEGAsync desktop client.

Archisman Panigrahi
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