<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 23:42, M. Tamer Özsu <<a href="mailto:ozsut@mac.com" class="">ozsut@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">==Tamer</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>On how many machines do you actually sync? A symlink can be copied over by dropbox syncing the remote copy if you modify that, I just tried.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I don’t think symlinks or hardlinks are things that Dropbox should understand. I one must do this, it’s probably safer to have the actual file in Dropbox and symlink to it from other folders.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div></body></html>