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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by the8472 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:25AM (#20845887)
depending on how dropbox works bind mounts and hardlinks might also work.
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Re:Dropbox no longer follows symlinks to items outside of yo... by kijin on Saturday August 31, 2019 @11:35AM (#20846893)
Bind mounts would be perfect, but I wouldn't count on Dropbox handling mountpoints inside the Dropbox folder gracefully in the long term. Remember when they stopped supporting all Linux filesystems other than ext4, a policy that they only recently rescinded?
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