On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 11:05, Josh Koffman wrote: > Dropbox used to support symlinks. On OSX at least. This was awesome > for me, I have a Dropbox folder as usual, and in it I put a symlink to > my Documents folder. This meant that my documents were automatically > backed up to the cloud, and yet they still appeared where I wanted > them to on the local computer. > > Alas, on October 6th I received an email telling me that symlinks to > folders outside of the Dropbox folder were now forbidden and wouldn't > work. > > Can you mirror desired folders into the dropbox folder using an appropriate utility. For example (ye olde) XXCOPY will - copy into a folder files which exist in another XXCOPY /bb /s source_folder\*.* destination_folder If you add /Z it will delete any files or subdirectories in destination that do not exist in the source. eg XXCOPY /bb /s /z /h /nx0 source_folder\*.* destination_folder /bb copy all non existing /s include sub folders /z delete any destination folders and files now not in source /h include hidden files /nx0 magic for file name mismatch incompatabilities * Russell ________________________ * They say: /NX0 Disables the /NX (shortname preservation) feature. Note: If src and dst are both local drive, the shortname will be preserved (/NX) by default, but if either src or dst is specified by a UNC (starts with \\), /NX0 is default. Using nx0 speeds file transfers at the loss of some short name matching. --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .