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How I Use Dropbox
- evilswan 15y agoTl;dr == You can use symlinks on OSX to effectively make Dropbox sync as much data from across your Mac as you need.
- RyanKearney 15y agoWindows also has support for symbolic and hard links, as well as directory junctions. The only thing I got out of this article is that Macs are unreliable and fail often.
- evilswan 15y agoFair point! Linux, of course, has symlinks too.
- rgrove 15y agoIt's been my experience that when syncing a directory to Dropbox that contains symlinks to other directories, bad things happen, since Dropbox follows the links instead of copying them. On another machine, I would delete what I thought was just a symlink, and Dropbox would delete the entire linked directory from all machines. Not cool. This has severely limited my Dropbox use, unfortunately. I wish there were an option to copy links instead of following them.