Re:BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public
by nessus42 on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @09:19AM
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> If dropbox had support for arbitrary multiple folder selection (but the the complexity would go way up?) I'd agree with your stance on symlink, but now this is more of a necessary evil.
I think you already answered your own objection on the right way to handle this need. Other syncing services, including BitTorrent Sync handle your need in precisely this manner. I.e., the right way. Dangerous, frustrating, and incorrect abuse of symlinks is NOT the right way to do this.
The tradeoff is to have all your stuff in one place, with is not a good thing most of the time IMO. A frequent problem I stumble on: there is a work folder where everything is already on svn/git, but I'd want to temporarily sync a few folders to dropbox only when needed, and get them out of dropbox when finished. As dropbox works now, to do this without using symlinks would be a PITA (I'd have to put all my files in the dropbox folder by default, and then play with the selective sync ? I am not even sure there is a way to do it without moving files around).
If dropbox had support for arbitrary multiple folder selection (but the the complexity would go way up?) I'd agree with your stance on symlink, but now this is more of a necessary evil.