Bibledit can synchronize selected files in its own project directory with the same files in the project directory of Paratext. At all times those files in the two directories will be the same. If a change is entered in one file, it will appear in the other file too.
Synchronization takes place at regular intervals, but it can be done immediately via the menu.
Via the menu a graphic version of the synchronizer can be started. The program used is unison. If there are any difficulties in the synchronization, and the program itself does not know how to solve them, you can solve the problem here by indicating which file will be copied to which. See the menu of unison for details.
WARNING: The synchronization is a powerful feature, and has the potential to erase part or all of your data! If a file, that you have marked to be synchronized, is deleted at one side, the synchronization will also delete it at the other side. A good backup system is very important to prevent loss of data.
As Paratext is running on Windows, Windows needs to be mounted on Linux, so that Bibledit has access to it. When you mount Windows ensure that you, as a user, have write access to it. This is needed as the synchronizer may find it necessary at times to write data to Windows.
How do you get this all to work? This is done via menu Preferences->Synchronization with Paratext. In the window that appears, enable the synchronization, set the directory that is to be synchronized, and enter the names of the files that you wish to synchronize.
Example. The Bibledit project directory is /home/joe/translation/projects. The directory with the Paratext projects is /mnt/windows/My Paratext Projects. As filenames you enter list.txt. Now the file /home/joe/translation/projects/list.txt and the file /mnt/windows/My Paratext Projects/list.txt will always be kept synchronized. Changes entered in one file go to the other as well.
The path separator is always the forward-slash character / --- even when synchronizing with Windows, where the normal separator character is a backslash.