Producing a Symlink

[Diana]

Morning,

I understand that in order to produce a symlink ie. link a file on my computer to my Dropbox I can use MacDropAny app.  Does anyone have experience of this app?  I am not using iCloud sync across my devices for spreadsheets because I have gone back to Numbers 09 as I did not like the new version in Mavericks and iCloud will not work with the old version.

Thank you.

Diana

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

You could just drag the file from Dropbox to your desktop holding down alt, that will create an alias, is that what you wanted?

Regards

Sam

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[Diana Hart]

Hi,

Yes I did and looked up if it would work.  I understand that Dropbox does not recognise the link from the Alias to the Original and so only up dates the alias which could lead to confusion as the local copy remains unchanged.

Diana

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[j.sagues]

Dragging a file from Dropbox folder to the desktop while holding down Alt produces a copy and not an alias and hence Dropbox sees no connection between the original in its folder and the copy on the desktop.

Regards

John

[Diana Hart]

Thank you. Having an Alias in Dropbox does not work but further research has found a solution in the Dropbox Help which I am trying.  Put the original document in Dropbox but leave  an Alias in original place.  Thus the Dropbox app does not need to recognise the link to the Alias because it is using the original document.  Fingers crossed.

Diana

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Sorry yes, alt+command is alias.

Regards

Sam

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