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My intuition says that Dropbox should never have followed (soft) links outside the 'boundaries' of the sync folder. It never occurred to me to expect it to work
by delinka 7y ago
My intuition says that Dropbox should never have followed (soft) links outside the 'boundaries' of the sync folder. It never occurred to me to expect it to work like that.
I have, however, use folders under Dropbox to sync local files into (make a change, sync over into Db); or even have a Db folder for git repos added as a remote (commit a change, git push dropbox branch.)
- nashashmi 7y agoSymlinks are a terrific way to duplicate the presence of files in multiple places. When Dropbox allowed Symlinks, and recommended Symlinks, it fundamentally changed the meaning of what Symlinks were. It focused it on its technique to emulate and a way to direct Dropbox to synchronize folders not necessarily in the Dropbox folder.
- Spivak 7y agoI think the ‘correct’ behavior for Dropbox is to just back up the symlink. It should be treated like it was any other file. Because now I can’t have a symlink in my Dropbox pointing to a machine-specific file outside the folder (like an env-vars file that’s different between MacOS and Linux)