Comments on: Tricking Dropbox

By: tecosystems » There’s More to Dropbox Than Piracy

tecosystems » There’s More to Dropbox Than Piracy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:43:18 +0000

[...] either drop them into your Dropbox folder, or create symlinks out to them from there. Here’s how to do that. Items that I back up – using the term loosely, as there’s no versioning, etc [...]

By: Symlink and DropBox on MacOS « giant. freakin. robot.

Symlink and DropBox on MacOS « giant. freakin. robot. — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:17:25 +0000

[...] http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/10/17/trick_dropbox/ [...]

By: Rob the Geek :: Driving DropBox - Linking External Directories in Windows

Rob the Geek :: Driving DropBox - Linking External Directories in Windows — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:12:44 +0000

[...] to be run FROM your DropBox directory, so be sure to cd /home/yourusername/Dropbox first!. Check this great article for more from a Linux HOWTO [...]

By: Santo

Santo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:54:38 +0000

FYI: Windows also supports linking but they tend to call it a junction.
And I can definitely recommend you the following application, which makes it really easy to create all kinds of links on a windows pc (junctions, hard links, …):

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:17:10 +0000

Just wondering.. To pull off this trick on Windows, maybe you could use NTFS reparse points to pull in other folders (google “sysinternals junction”). I can’t try it as I’ve rather dumbly left my Dropbox on a FAT32 partition

By: the-way-to-the-centre » dropbox symlinks

the-way-to-the-centre » dropbox symlinks — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:24:57 +0000

[...] aliased folder however, were not. A few repeat & fails later a bit more searching brought me to this post that stated that this only works if you symlink out from the Dropbox [...]

By: Asbjørn Ulsberg

Asbjørn Ulsberg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:57:04 +0000

Wonderful tip. I’ll try to employ it on my OS X machine as soon as I get home today. I wish I were able to do the same on Windows, but as in most areas, Windows just plainly sucks too much to give this kind of functionality. Being able to synchronize work documents from my Windows box would be neat, but alas we’re not close enough to a solution to even be thinking about a cigar. Windows blows!

By: Kevin Schmidt

Kevin Schmidt — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:10:16 +0000

Symlinks on Linux/Unix/Solaris/BSD/etc. are wonderful things for many reasons, this being just one of them, and a key reason I dislike Windows. How for example is one supposed to easily have Java applications pointing to a JRE directory and have them not break when you install a new version that has a different directory name? On *nix, just have a symlink /usr/java to wherever it is an voila you’ve isolated the apps from the physical directory location.

By: sogrady

sogrady — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:43:36 +0000

@James: excellent guess. that’s exactly what that is. the odds of something i tweaked looking like that are near zero

By: James

James — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:37:39 +0000

Mike: That looks like the Dust theme.