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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...
so how do i do this on macs so that my desktop and downloads folder continue to funtion on Mac OS but are all synced across multiplpe macs?
This is the ONE KILLER feature I have relied upon and without it I really ahve little use for Dropbox.
numan I think it might be hard to use it for a Desktop, but don't especially see the need since iCloud syncs that well. As for as the Downloads folder, you can set a browser to download anywhere you want it to. So just make a folder in Dropbox and use it. There is no need to even worry about soft links from local folders unless you just especially want to have a file like ~/Mydownloads sitting in your home directory.
I should say that at this point I have a host of "local" files across several Macs (including things like ~/bin, ~/src and ~/Library/Script Libraries) that are really soft links to Dropbox files. It has become integral to my workflow. Even when doing development work I can sit down at whatever machine I happen to be in front of at the moment and pick up what I was doing pretty seamlessly.
