I'm trying to sync some directories to my Dropbox folder without moving them, but it's not working. I've tried, for example ln -s Documents Dropbox/Documents, but it shows up in whatever file explorer I try as a broken link, so I'm assuming it not going to work. I've also tried ln -s Documents/* Dropbox/Documents/ but all the links show up as broken. I tried a few times to change the permissions on my Documents folder but chmod makes my head hurt. Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do? Just to be perfectly clear, what I want to do is create a symlink from, e.g. ~/Documents to my Dropbox folder so it will sync to Dropbox, without having to move my Documents folder or keep two copies of those files. Once I get it working, I'd like to do the same thing with my Music, Pictures, and Video folders. I use Dropbox for syncing, not sharing. Also, I'm aware there are probably options that work better w/ Linux than Dropbox, but I'm already paying for it. I'm using the stable release of Debian 8.
I'm trying to sync some directories to my Dropbox folder without moving them, but it's not working. I've tried, for example ln -s Documents Dropbox/Documents, but it shows up in whatever file explorer I try as a broken link, so I'm assuming it not going to work. I've also tried ln -s Documents/* Dropbox/Documents/ but all the links show up as broken. I tried a few times to change the permissions on my Documents folder but chmod makes my head hurt. Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do? Just to be perfectly clear, what I want to do is create a symlink from, e.g. ~/Documents to my Dropbox folder so it will sync to Dropbox, without having to move my Documents folder or keep two copies of those files. Once I get it working, I'd like to do the same thing with my Music, Pictures, and Video folders. I use Dropbox for syncing, not sharing. Also, I'm aware there are probably options that work better w/ Linux than Dropbox, but I'm already paying for it. I'm using the stable release of Debian 8.
Dl Dropbox User Content Files
If you want to check programmatically whether a given object is a plain directory or a symbolic link to a directory you may use the test command. Note that it returns is directory for both directories and symlinks to directories but only returns is symlink for symbolic links. Dropbox: Symbolic links on Windows Dropbox is a neat little tool for automagically storing your data on the cloud and accessing them across different machines. At Qxf2 Services, we use a combination of Dropbox and Evernote to store and backup non-confidential data.
