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Hardlinks in dropbox folder

Hardlinks in dropbox folder

mtozsu
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Now that Dropbox has stopped supporting symlinks within Dropbox folder (to folders outside Dropbox), my setup no longer works. I wonder if hard links from within Dropbox to folders outside Dropbox would work, meaning that they would sync. Or would Dropbox ignore the external folder?

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-Rob-
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You can just for files by going to "terminal".

 

then enter on the command line:

ln <existing file> <link to be created>.

 

This wil create a hard link between the 2 entries.

You can see this by executing:

ls -l <existing file> <link to be created>

You'll see that the number of link (the first number) > 1, and the inode number is the same.

 

It is in MacOS not possible to create a hard link on directories (as far as I know).

And, how Dropbox handles the hard linked files I don't know. I would expect is doen not recognise the inode number and/or the number of links be the same, so it would create 2 different files, with exactly the same creation/change dates (as these are in the inode admin)

 

 

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