DropBox + Symboliklinker – how to put folders on DropBox without moving them
I guess everyone knows about DropBox, if you don’t know hat I’m talking about, please, do yourself a favor, go here and subscribe. When you want a folder to be on dropbox, usually, you have to move that folder in the dropbox folder. That’s not so pretty for me, can we avoid this step and have everything ordered as usual on our HD in Mac OSX?
Yes, we can! No, I really mean it, it’s not some useless sponsor this time. The smartest people among you must have already tried to do the trick in Mac OSX by creating Similinks. Well, the problem is that they do not work for dropbox: if you create a similink of a folder and put it in the dropbox folder, only the similink is uploaded, what a bad attitude.
So the solution is downloading this free tool: Symbolic Linker. It’s a pretty neat piece of software, once it’s installed, you’ll see a new entry in the right-click menu in Finder: “Make Symbolic Link”! So, all you have to do now is right-click on a folder you want in your dropbox account, make a symbolic link, move that link in the dropbox folder! Every file contained in the folder will be uploaded normally. This way you don’t need to move your files from where they are 
What a cool trick!
I never thought I could upload only the symbolic link to Dropbox.
Happy it turned out to be handy for you
This is actually the same thing you usually do under Linux.
Yeah well, in Linux that’s too easy, it needed no guide for this
In Max OSX it’s much more tricky…
[...] Just follow this link and activate a DropBox account normally. When you’ll install the DropBox application on your system, you’ll have a bonus of 500 MB! I’ll have the same bonus too, of course, so you’ll help me a little too. There’s a limited amount of free space we can gain from this way of creating accounts, so please be quick. For a useful tip on uploading folders in DropBox without moving them, see this link! [...]
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