I sent a feature request to Smile On My Mac the makers of Text Expander. I asked if they had any plans to support Drop Box as a syncing system. Below is the reply I got.

It can be done, but is not support at the moment, but worked fine for me. The command in step 4 didn’t work for me as that isn’t where my Drop Box is saved.

The answer is to open the Terminal, type ln -s (that is a lowercase L) then drag the folder you make in step 3 (the TextExpander folder) to the Terminal than copy this command to the end - ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextExpander and hit return.

My version looked like this:

ln -s /Users/username/Documents/_personal\ files/Baz\'s\ Folder/Dropbox/Library/TextExpander ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextExpander

One your primary machine:
1.  Install Dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com/)
2.  Close System Preferences
3.  In the Finder, go to your Dropbox folder and create a folder called "Library."
3.  Drag the ~/Library/Application Support/TextExpander folder to your Dropbox/Library folder.  Your TextExpander settings and snippets are now stored on Dropbox.
4.  Open Terminal.app and type the following command:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Library/TextExpander ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextExpander
The symlink will then redirect TextExpander to your Dropbox folder to grab the snippet information.    Take note that you won't get any sort of confirmation in the Terminal that this operation succeeded.  You can confirm it by going to [Home]/Library/Application Support and checking to see if the TextExpander folder is an alias now. It should look like this.

 

On your subsequent Macs:
1.  Install Dropbox (https://www.getdropbox.com/)
2.  Close System Preferences
3.  Delete the ~/Library/Application Support/TextExpander folder.  Since the snippets are on Dropbox, we need to symlink it like we did on the primary machine.  
4.  Open Terminal.app and type the same command as in the previous step 4. It will work fine if your DropBox is in the same path and machine 1.

Tags: Text Expander, dropbox, Smile On My Mac