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I'd love to sync Apple Mail's Folders including archives. Can this be done?
I want to sync the Mail Folders including archive mail.
- Symlinks can work in Dropbox but they are not supported, and depending on where you created them, can result in the files being synced twice, taking up twice the amount of storage.
Mark's suggestion is the correct one. Just don't do it. If something goes wrong, it won't be pretty.
- Mark
Super User II
Hi MichaelQC.
Basically..... Dont. It wont end well.
In fact its really almost impossible to do because they are not designed to work like that. Mail will require exclusive access to the files/folders when its open and for Dropbox to sync so will it. You are also looking at a massive risk of data corruption if you sync between multiple machines.
Instead of syncing Mail use IMAP or Exchange email servers instead.Thanks Mark I already use IMAP mail and it works wonderfully well between my macs.
It's the archive of mail I have setup in the "On my Mac" section of Apple Mail that I want to share with my two MacBook Air machines. I have seen that some people have used symlinks but I am not sure that it is supported by Dropbox and I cannot find any supporting information.
- RichSymlinks can work in Dropbox but they are not supported, and depending on where you created them, can result in the files being synced twice, taking up twice the amount of storage.
Mark's suggestion is the correct one. Just don't do it. If something goes wrong, it won't be pretty.
