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Desktop symbolic link removed on restart on MacOS Catalina
For a decade, I've been syncing my Desktop using Dropbox by running the commands:
sudo rm -r Desktop
ln -s Dropbox/Desktop Desktop
I then see the files inside `Dropbox/Desktop` on my Desktop. Sin...
Thank you for those links. Dropbox's change in handling symlinks is unrelated because I keep the "real" Desktop folder inside the Dropbox folder. The solution was provided by niazy lower down the thread:
After creating the symlink to my Dropbox desktop folder, I locked the link file by displaying its info and checking the 'Locked' checkbox.
I still create the symlink as shown above but then set it to "Locked" to have it preserved between reboots.
I would recommend not moving this thread to make it easier to find via search. Thank you for the link to the thread and to niazy for the solution.
Jane
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThank you for those links. Dropbox's change in handling symlinks is unrelated because I keep the "real" Desktop folder inside the Dropbox folder. The solution was provided by niazy lower down the thread:
After creating the symlink to my Dropbox desktop folder, I locked the link file by displaying its info and checking the 'Locked' checkbox.
I still create the symlink as shown above but then set it to "Locked" to have it preserved between reboots.
I would recommend not moving this thread to make it easier to find via search. Thank you for the link to the thread and to niazy for the solution.
- Jane
The issue I'm having with this solution is that then all of the files in that symlinked folder are also locked and I can't modify/delete. Any insight?
I don't have that issue because the only thing locked is the symlink, not the actual folder or its file contents. So, any changes to the files still sync normally. You need to delete the Desktop and create a symlink like I show at the very top of this thread.
I guess I'm having issues getting the chflags command to work on the link file itself, and not on the directory it links to. When I drag it into terminal, it is acting like a directory, not a file. Any hints for a noob?
Tks!
It worked perfectly
