<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 7, 2018, at 11:38, M. Tamer Özsu <<a href="mailto:ozsut@mac.com" class="">ozsut@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">You can do it in the reverse as well Herb — in fact Dropbox recommends putting the originals in Dropbox and having symbolic links elsewhere (and, as far as I could figure out, this is the only way it works on Windows Dropbox installations). </span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I think that’s what Herb was suggesting</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: AgmenaPro-Regular; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">On Mac OS, I have found that I can leave things where they are and put symlinks into Dropbox. I have a bunch of symlinks in Dropbox to folders in my ~/Documents directory and it works. I think I like having the originals in their default locations and thinking of Dropbox only as a utility to facilitate sync’ing.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">That works, but I don’t think it’s supported. It seems to be a (useful) side-effect of how Dropbox does not handle symlinks. And of course, while for some reason the symlink is preserved in your local ~/Dropbox directory, you are still copying the actual files over the Dropbox servers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div></body></html>