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dankohn
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

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...
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    dankohn
    6 years ago

    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.

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AnotherAnon
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Mark me down as another ex-dropbox user.  My desktop needs to be where it belongs.  Used to use sym-links.  Can't anymore. :-(

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