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Claudio N.1's avatar
Claudio N.1
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

Trouble with internal symlinks

Hello, I am struggling with symlinks. I can't get them to work. I have a folder structure like this: Fotos/jpeg/ [files] Fotos/colecciones( [links to some files] The links are defined like "../j...
  • Здравко's avatar
    4 years ago

    Hi Claudio N.1 ,

    Actually, you can't. Dropbox disabled symlink follow up for a long time already. When you use shared link to access some symbolic link you are accessing the symbolic link itself, not the pointed content! In case everything is in sync, as on your Mac, the symbolic link works as usual (there are both - link and pointed file, in sync).

    Hope this clarifies matter.

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