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Use symbolic links in a Dropbox folder
Thank you, Sesquipedalian, for taking the time to explain the difference. Your explanation is clearer than the general information found at other places, particularly with aliases in OS X.
I created a folder on Dropbox that contains (1) an Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of my students' grades and (2) other course-related folders and files. Then, on my home Mac and on my work Mac, I created an alias on the Desktop that points to the folder on Dropbox. This way, if I changed data in the spreadsheet, for example, while at work, then when I return home and access the spreadsheet from the folder alias on the Desktop, the updated spreadsheet is there. That is, the originals always reside on Dropbox. This use of aliases is the reverse of what you warned me about in your last paragraph. But, this is OK, isn't it? Or, does it have a potential for issues?
Use symbolic links in a Dropbox folder
The alias will only work on the Mac you created the alias on. On another computer linked to your Dropbox account, the alias file will copy to your Dropbox, but will be useless. Symlinks are covered in the Dropbox documentation as the way to achieve what we're talking about here. While this hint is great and very well written, I would recommend that everyone who is interested in working with symlinks and Dropbox to just check out the Dropbox documentation.
Use symbolic links in a Dropbox folder
There's a subtle point that, once you understand it, makes symlinks much more useful in Dropbox. ---
-- Jerry |
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