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Tyrrell
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago
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On Mac, aliases in Dropbox to folders within Dropbox no longer work across devices

I'm having the same problem as what the user Robio describes here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Files-folders/Mac-aliases-within-Dropbox-used-to-work-on-all-shared-devices/m-p/370300 That disc...
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  • Robio's avatar
    Robio
    6 years ago

    I imagine everyone is aware of this, but I still had this thread bookmarked, so I just popped in to say this issue appears to be fixed. I don't recall when it was fixed, but I'm running Dropbox 97.4.467 and aliases are working across devices within shared Dropbox folders.

     

    Now if we can just get them to fix the problem of locked folders/files being not staying locked...

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Daphne
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6 years ago

Hey AgardD, thanks for joining the thread here!

Earlier this year, there was a change made in the way that Dropbox syncs symlinks. Please check out this article here for more info on this.

I hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions!

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bobthened
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Why would you change that?!?!! The ability to do this was like 50% of the reasoning behind me choosing Dropbox in the first place!!

How can I auto-sync a folder like 'Documents' now? Is it even possible? do I have to do it manually now?

Maybe I should switch to iCloud.

 

 

  • Robio's avatar
    Robio
    Helpful | Level 7
    6 years ago

    I imagine everyone is aware of this, but I still had this thread bookmarked, so I just popped in to say this issue appears to be fixed. I don't recall when it was fixed, but I'm running Dropbox 97.4.467 and aliases are working across devices within shared Dropbox folders.

     

    Now if we can just get them to fix the problem of locked folders/files being not staying locked...

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