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How can I have two Macs syncing with the same Home folders?
How can I move the folders in the Home folder so that they are in my Dropbox? I want them all synced between two macs. My aim is to have both macs as close as possible to being copies of each other.
Hi MichaelQC, thanks for messaging today!
If you want the two devices to sync their Home folders directly, then this won’t be possible using the Dropbox desktop application, though there might be some other service or app that links to Dropbox which could perform this action for you.
There is the automatic computer backup feature, however, this doesn’t work the way in which you’re looking for, since each computer would have their own folder syncing to the site, essentially duplicating data for you.
Hope this helps to clarify matters!
Jay
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHi MBernhardt, an alias wouldn't be able to sync another folder into the Dropbox folder, including the computer backup folders. It won't sync to another machine for that reason.
No, I mean that I could place a shortcut to DropBox/iMac.local/Desktop on the desktop of the laptop, and vice versa. Which I've now done.
- Daphne
I'm glad to hear that info was of some help MBernhardt!
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