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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>I don’t think this is correct – I have a ton of symlinks defined within the Dropbox folder to folders in my ~/Documents and even ~/Library folders and they work properly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>==Tamer<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black'>On 2016-11-02, 11:37 PM, "MacOSX-TeX on behalf of Ettore Aldrovandi" <<a href="mailto:macosx-tex-bounces@email.esm.psu.edu">macosx-tex-bounces@email.esm.psu.edu</a> on behalf of <a href="mailto:ealdrov@math.fsu.edu">ealdrov@math.fsu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Nov 2, 2016, at 20:44, Ross Moore <<a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Herb, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>On 3 Nov 2016, at 10:58, Herb Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Howdy,<br><br>I think the best thing to do is copy the files into a folder and create symlinks in the Dropbox folder of the source files and graphics, etc., but not the aux, etc,, files on one computer.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Will that actually work? Have you tried it?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If the target of the symlink changes, will that cause an update in the Cloud?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The symlink file itself has not changed on disk — if it is a “soft” link via ln -s <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>— so what would trigger DropBox to update and broadcast this to other clients?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>A simlink _in_ Dropbox to a file in some other folder won’t work in the intended way. Dropbox (or other cloud services) don’t have a concept of symlink. As soon as it syncs it will actually copy the link’s target. So, if you edit _that_ on a remote machine it will break your link on the one you initially set it up.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you use a “hard” link — ln with no option — then I suppose it would <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>do the right thing for DropBox, as now the file information does update.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>More or less same behavior. It copies the files, so you end up with two separate copies. Check the inodes.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>—Ettore<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting ----------- TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq List Reminders and Etiquette: https://www.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/ List Archives: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/ TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/ List Info: https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>