Comments on: Goodbye Chronosync, Hello Dropbox

By: zeus 1

zeus 1 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:00:44 +0000

Your link to Symbolic lnker is outdated – isnt it?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:07:41 +0000

Chris,
I know this is an old post, but I just found it and boy am I glad I did! I just set it up, and Dropbox is merrily syncing between 3 Macs right now. So far it looks great, but I’m curious to see how it deals with versioning when stressed.

I was carrying around a portable harddrive and for over a year, I have been chronosyncing its brains out on my multiple machines. (Chronosync is great program, by the way). After getting a new notebook and highspeed DSL, I wanted to sync into the cloud. I wasted the last few days trying trying to replicate this with Amazon S3; boy that was a mess. I looked into MobileMe, but the lack of security on data transfer turned me off. Finally I went with the 50GB Dropbox (which is Amazon S3 anyway and almost as cheap), and luckily found your page right away.

Thanks for the great post!

By: Herbien

Herbien — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:40:40 +0000

Thanks for your reply, Chris. Works fine. I will use your tip but I won’t say goodbye to Chronosync, though. A combination of both should be fine!

Keep it up!

JPH

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:19:27 +0000

If you are trying to sync two folders, you have to create a symbolic link for each folder on both computers. Name both symlinks the same.

While both computers are not connected to Dropbox, drop each symbolic link into your Dropbox folder in the same place on respective computer (e.g. ~/User/Dropbox/symlinkname.) When you connect both computers, since the symlinks are called the same thing, both folders that the symlinks points to will by synced.

By: Herbien

Herbien — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:46:40 +0000

Hi Sir,

“…make sure you name all of the newly created Symbolic Links the same.”

“…On each computer, move the newly created Symbolic Links to the Dropbox folder.”

How can you have 2 files by the same name in the same folder? Am I missing something?

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:10:15 +0000

Great post.

I have all my files in a folder on a windows server and would like to set up a share with my macbook via dropbox.

Any idea if this would work?

Thanks,

Neil

By: Anders

Anders — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:31:16 +0000

Great tutorial on how to use symlinks with Dropbox! Just got a spanking new MacBook Pro, so now I can keep all my relevant projects in sync with my iMac. Automagically!
Thank you!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 22:29:05 +0000

Seeding the pot: anybody else do this? Is it working out great for you? This is a pretty popular page so somebody must have by now!