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On Mac, aliases in Dropbox to folders within Dropbox no longer work across devices
I'm having the same problem as what the user Robio describes here:
https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Files-folders/Mac-aliases-within-Dropbox-used-to-work-on-all-shared-devices/m-p/370300
That disc...
I imagine everyone is aware of this, but I still had this thread bookmarked, so I just popped in to say this issue appears to be fixed. I don't recall when it was fixed, but I'm running Dropbox 97.4.467 and aliases are working across devices within shared Dropbox folders.
Now if we can just get them to fix the problem of locked folders/files being not staying locked...
Tyrrell wrote:
...However, this solution has two huge defects:
- I believe that, for the symlink to work on two different machines, the absolute paths to the source files must be the same. This will fail, for example, if the name of the user folder containing the Dropbox folder is different. (Unfortunately, in MacOS, the ln command lacks the -r flag for making relative symlinks. I haven't been able to find a workaround for this.)
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Hi Tyrrell,
Actually, you don't have to use -r option/flag to create a relative link. :wink:
In you particular case (which differ from the initial in this thread) you can create 'alias' Folder2 pointing to Folder1, both sit in ~/Dropbox using:
cd ~/Dropbox ln -s Folder1 Folder2
More generaly, if somebody want to create relative link in one place named LinkName pointing to another entry somewhere in filesystem hierarhy like "~/Dropbox/path/link/place/LinkName" and "~/Dropbox/path/actual/place/entry", following could be used:
cd ~/Dropbox/path/link/place ln -s ../../actual/place/entry LinkName
In such a way link become relative implicitly.
Enjoy!
Здравко wrote:
In you particular case (which differ from the initial in this thread) you can create 'alias' Folder2 pointing to Folder1, both sit in ~/Dropbox using:cd ~/Dropbox ln -s Folder1 Folder2
Hi, Здравко. Thank for the reply.
The command
cd ~/Dropbox ln -s Folder1 Folder2
doesn't work for me.
The good news is that I get something named "Folder1" inside of Folder2. But the bad news is the thing named "Folder1" inside of Folder2 acts like a broken alias. It has the "generic alias" icon. That is, the icon is a generic document icon (not a folder icon) with a little arrow in the lower left corner. Double clicking it produces the error message:
Do you see something different when you do this?
Ah... Strange... It works for me....
Another option is skipping link name and rename the link after that, if need (link name is optional). But this would work only when the link and the target are NOT in same place (that's one of the reason, linkname argument to be present - for changing name of the link; by default - same as target)!
ADD: Might help if prepend the names with "./"... Try at least.
If nothing helps, on clear terminal type the lines, I suggested above, and post the content (together your command, exactly as you typed and possible results - i.e. erros) in a code block </> or as a screenshot. So would be clear what's going on.
