The Mac / TextExpander User's Quick and Easy Guide to Breevy


Help Topics:
    - Regular Help File / Documentation
The Mac / TextExpander User's Quick and Easy Guide to Breevy:
     - Importing your TextExpander Snippets
     - Syncing your TextExpander Snippets with Breevy using Dropbox
     - Exporting your Snippets back to TextExpander
  Other:
    - Acknowledgements

Thanks for downloading Breevy!

We appreciate you taking the time to install and use Breevy. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to contact us. You can send us an e-mail or contact us through the Ask Us a Question feature of the program (under the Help menu). We'll get back to you as soon as we can.

You probably already know what a text expander is, and just want to know how to use your TextExpander snippets with Breevy. No problem! Breevy is very similar to TextExpander and can indeed import (as well as sync with) your TextExpander snippets. It can also export back to TextExpander, either via Dropbox sync or manual export.

Importing your TextExpander Snippets

Breevy can import your TextExpander (SmileOnMyMac) snippets, allowing you to use your snippets even if you're away from your Mac.

The process can be completed in just two easy steps (if you have Dropbox installed on your Mac and enabled in TextExpander, the process is even easier -- see below). After you've completed both steps, you'll have successfully imported your TextExpander snippets into Breevy and will be able to start using them on your Windows PC immediately:

After that, all you have to do is click Apply to save the changes and you can then use your TextExpander snippets in Windows!

Still having trouble importing your TextExpander snippets into Breevy? Contact us and we'd be glad to help you out. You can send us a message from the Help menu in Breevy's main window, or send an e-mail to support@16software.com. We'll do our best to respond as quickly as possible.

Note: While Breevy supports almost all of TextExpander's snippet features, it doesn't support a few of TextExpander's more advanced features, such as snippets with formatted (rich) text / pictures, and adding/synchronizing snippet groups from URLs. However, we're working on these features, so stay tuned. In the meantime, all of your other snippets will work perfectly.


Syncing your TextExpander Snippets with Breevy using Dropbox

Breevy includes full support for Dropbox sync with TextExpander. Dropbox is free, very easy to install, used by over 4 million people, and runs on both Mac OSX and Windows.

With Dropbox sync enabled in both TextExpander and Breevy, you'll no longer have to worry about manually keeping your snippets up to date on all of your computers, whether they're running Mac OSX (TextExpander) or Windows (Breevy). Breevy will handle all of that for you: whenever you make changes to your snippets in TextExpander, they'll be automatically and instantly reflected in Breevy; in addition, whenever you make changes to your snippets in Breevy, they'll be automatically and instantly reflected in TextExpander. Which means there's no work involved for you!

Just follow these simple steps and your TextExpander snippets will be auto-sync'd into Breevy in no time:

After you click OK, you'll never have to worry about manually keeping your TextExpander snippets up to date in Breevy again.


Exporting your Snippets back to TextExpander

Breevy can also export your snippets back to the TextExpander format, so that even if you don't have Dropbox (see above) you can still make changes to your snippets in Breevy and then transfer those changes back to TextExpander easily.

To export all of your snippets back to the TextExpander format, simply select File -> Export All Abbreviations to TextExpander Snippet File and click Save. Then, transfer the exported Settings.textexpander file to your Mac (if you're not sure how to do this, see above) and place it in the [Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander folder.

To instead only export a single group from Breevy so you can import it in TextExpander, right-click that group in Breevy and select Export as TextExpander Group from the pop-up menu. Transfer this exported group file to your Mac, and then in TextExpander, choose File > Add Group from File... from the menu and select the exported group file.



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