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malikjfernando
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

Symlink changes - Mac OS sync desktop to Dropbox broken

I have tons of working files on my Mac desktop which I need to access on iOS and this worked well with symlink between desktop and dropbox folder. With the recent change where symlinks don't sync fol...
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Fiona
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6 years ago

Hello jeff1054. 

Thanks for posting about symlinks and how they can work in your user case. 

I merged your topic to this one to keep things neat. 

I'd be happy to see you help around like you did today. Your feedback and solutions are always welcome. 

Thanks for joining our Community! :grin:

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jeff1054
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

Fiona

cp -rp $1 ~/Dropbox ; rm -r $1 ; ln -s ~/Dropbox/$1 $1 

Then on other machines:  ln -s ~/Dropbox/$1 $1

And you have come pretty close to recreating the functionality of iCloud Drive. Or at least putting an existing directory tree onto a pretty nice network file system that is accessible when the network is down.  ;-)

Cheers!

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