(?)ĥ.) completely superior security story end-to-end encryption means you are in control of who can access your files (no access for employees, governments, etc)Ī.) a little bit more work to set up (but it's really just a little bit. Back when I used Dropbox for syncing, it couldn't sync a folder containing a symlink, but this may no longer be true.
#Dropbox mac symbolic link software
I moved to the open-source SyncThing some years ago, which gave me:ġ.) the ability to sync any arbitrary set of folders I want, which of course completely obviates the need to care about things like this issue (i.e., no need to use symlinks to sync other folders, because you can just sync those folders themselves)Ģ.) the ability to actually sync folders that contain symlinks, as many types of software projects do (Dropbox and many other purported sync tools can't do that, which means there are many common types of folder that they can't sync without corrupting them by replacing the symlink with the contents of the symlink destination) EDIT: Or, have they fixed that now, and is that why they are making this announcement? I am not sure. (Aside: Why not aliases in my bashrc, you ask? Because I use a few different operating systems and eventually realized that rather than trying to unify OS specifics and shared aliases in bashrc it was much simpler to maintain the aliases as wrapping shell scripts.)ĭropbox is still OK for easily sharing files with other, especially movies and stuff that its sharing web UI supports.īut in 2019 it is basically an inferior and antiquated tool for syncing your own files. Many of the files I have in my ~/bin/ are symlinks to files that live in git repositories.įor example, I have a few “alias commands” (shell scripts that wrap a longer command) in ~/bin/ This is similar to what I do with some of my files in ~/bin/ I see multiple comments here saying that this is unfortunate because people were using symlinks in order to automatically have backups of program configurations etc.īut the solution is simple, just switch around which is the real file and which is the symlink.Īnd so on, remove the old symlinks and place the real files in ~/Dropbox/ and then symlink the other locations there.
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