{"id":331,"date":"2020-04-14T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T14:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz.\/~blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:12:56","slug":"dropbox-drops-symlink-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2020\/04\/dropbox-drops-symlink-syncing","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox drops symlink-syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/dropbox\/search\/?q=symlink&amp;sort=top&amp;restrict_sr=on\">horrible news<\/a>. But there is a new (nearly-serviceable) solution: swap the \"real\" folder with the symlink.<\/p>\n<p>Real-world example (Windows 7 and newer):<\/p>\n<pre>New-Item -type SymbolicLink`\r\n -Path 'C:\\Users\\User\\Music\\iTunes\\iTunes Media\\Music'`\r\n -Target '..\\..\\..\\Dropbox\\Music'<\/pre>\n<p>be sure to run it as administrator<\/p>\n<p>hope this helps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some horrible news. But there is a new (nearly-serviceable) solution: swap the \"real\" folder with the symlink. (Works on Windows, Linux, and OSX!) Here's the PowerShell syntax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[8,147,9,158],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writeups","tag-backup","tag-big-tech","tag-cloud","tag-dropbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}