[tlug] sharing anthy dictionary between machines

[s smith <sjs@example.com>]

Hi.

I have several machines I've been sharing the ibus-anthy dictionary on 
via a dropbox account.  What I've done is to move the 
.anthy/private_words_default to the Dropbox directory and put a sym-link 
between from the Dropbox file to the .anthy file.
This sort of works but I get unexpected behavior when I update the 
private_words_default using kasumi that doesn't make sense.  When I 
update the file, the sym-link is replaced with a regular file (which 
isn't what I would want but I can understand) and the dropbox file is 
replaced with a new file with only one entry and that makes no sense at all.
Dropbox indicates the change is coming from the machine/user I'm on, so 
it isn't one of the other machines that's changing the file.
First -- is there a better way to do this?  I suppose I could set up a 
cron-task to watch the file and update instead of using a sym-link, but 
this seems rather rube-godbergian to me.
And second, does anyone have an explanation for this behavior?

Thanks
Steve S.