Staying in sync across two Macs

I use Lightroom 4 on two Macs and try to keep them in sync. I keep my Lightroom data in my Box sync folder so that it syncs with the Box servers, and between the Macs. That way I, in theory, have the same data on both machines and backed up in the cloud.
The trouble is, the same data doesn't appear on both Macs. I've tried navigating to different Lighroom catologs and backups, but don't seem to be able to find the right files. I think I'm a bit confused as to how catologs work and how to find the most recent file.
Any ideas? Thanks.

What do you mean when you refer to "Lightroom data"? That could mean a lot of different things.
How quickly is this software able to upload changes from one computer so that they can be read by the 2nd computer? I would imagine that a large catalog file might take a while to upload from one computer and then download to the 2nd computer.

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I have 2 macs (iMac desktop and Mac Book Pro) I would like two sync the two every evening to be identical. Including the applications and system folders as well as users and documents etc. The sync will need to be done every day to update files that have been modified on either machine. Is it possible to do this via Time machine or is there a third party software that is capable of doing the same thing? if possible at all.

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