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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by orthoganol on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:12PM (#13322086)
I passed when I learned that in order to sync target directories they all had to be moved and live under the /Dropbox namespace, and that I would now be working within that namespace for my various projects. No thanks. That was a while ago - maybe they are different now?
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by ihuman on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:14PM (#13322098)
Its still like that, but you can just create a symbolic link to the folder outside. Dropbox will follow the link and sync the files.
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by bhalperin on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:30PM (#13322236)
Dropbox does not cooperate well with symlinks. For instance, if you create a symlink in your Dropbox folder to My Documents on Windows, the Dropbox folder will duplicate the My Documents files. Takes up twice the space.
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by orthoganol on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:22PM (#13322168)
EDIT - great, I will give Dropbox another shot.
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by johnchristopher on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:15PM (#13322108)
Which alternative are you using ? (if any)
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Re:Dropbox Could Have One of 2017’s Most Interesting IPOs by _razvan on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:57AM (#13328114)
Syncing outside folders to Dropbox used to be such a pain because symlinks/junctions don't sync changes as they happen (you need to restart Dropbox each time in order for it to sync changes) so that's why we built Boxifier. Disclaimer: I am one of the founders.
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