(1) You just put a symlink into your Dropbox folder with the above sequence of commands, which just serves to illustrate the danger of this approach. (2) Your

(1) You just put a symlink into your Dropbox folder with the above sequence of commands, which just serves to illustrate the danger of this approach. (2) Your suggestion is extremely difficult or impossible to do in the general case. (3) I have better things to do with my life than rearrange my entire filesystem to suit the ill-conceived whims of a product that does the wrong thing. (4) I would like to sync parts of my filesystem as they currently are. (5) I have my own syncing solution that works better for my needs, and it only took me a couple of hours to throw together. (6) I'm going to use BitTorrent Sync in the future for most of my syncing needs (as long as it turns out to be reliable) since it does syncing properly in the face of symlinks. (7) I'll still use Dropbox for simple sharing of files with friends and getting files onto my iPad. Apparently, Dropbox just doesn't care about the needs of more sophisticated users, as that isn't a very large market.