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Dropbox mac symbolic link
Dropbox mac symbolic link






dropbox mac symbolic link
  1. #Dropbox mac symbolic link windows 10#
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For anyone who is interested: I store my substantial iTunes library on my Dropbox Pro account. Forgive me, but what I thought hadn't worked, did actually work. You also need to remove the last slash in the second Dropbox, so it would be: rm ~/Dropbox/Dropbox (remove the link you created) rmdir ~/Dropbox ln -s /Volumes/External/Dropbox/ ~/Dropbox If you're trying to combine existing files from ~/Dropbox and files in /Volumes/External/Dropbox into a single directory there's a different way to go about that - basically a symbolic link for each file/directory in /Volumes/External/Dropbox. So, was the command that you used: ln -s /Volumes/External/Dropbox/ ~/Dropbox/ And the result was a folder Dropbox in your ~/Dropbox folder? (So ~/Dropbox/Dropbox) If so, you cannot have the Dropbox folder existing in ~/ before creating the link. There's some ambiguity in your description (at least for me), but this is my best guess.

I managed to do this exact thing on my QNAP NAS and on my Windows 10 desktop. I want a link that effectively makes any application see the contents of the Dropbox folder on the external drive at ~/Dropbox. (so at '/Volumes/External/Dropbox/') I want a symbolic link to the folder in the users folder ( '~/Dropbox/') Using 'ln -s' just creates and alias that then just redirects to the external drive.

dropbox mac symbolic link

For more clarification: I have an external hard drive with my Dropbox folder on it. Unfortunately, I am trying to accomplish something specific, and when using the above method, the application I am using doesn't read it as if the contents of the original folder are at the location where I want the link to be, it simply redirects to the original and thus what I am trying to do fails. I want it to have the little chevron next to the folder that allows the expansion of the folder contents.Īs I said, using 'ln -s original_folder link_folder' just creates an alias folder link. I am trying to make a link to a folder that appears in Finder as if it was located at that location. I can create one, but it just comes out as a standard alias. Hi, I am having issues with creating a symbolic link on my Mac mini.








Dropbox mac symbolic link