Re:Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux con...
by haiku2077 on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:19AM
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> Even if true, technical people can work around this by either spoofing a non-external drive or using `ln`, no?
IIRC Google Drive for Desktop won't sync the target of a symbolic link. It will sync the target of a hard link, but hard links can only target the same filesystem that the link is on, so you can't target an external drive on macOS AFAIK.
I can't speak for the other software you mentioned.
IIRC Google Drive for Desktop won't sync the target of a symbolic link. It will sync the target of a hard link, but hard links can only target the same filesystem that the link is on, so you can't target an external drive on macOS AFAIK.
I can't speak for the other software you mentioned.