Tag: SYMLINK

If you want to sync folders on your Mac via Dropbox, without moving or copying them to your Dropbox folder, you want MacDropAny. Sure, you could use the command line to create symbolic links, but it's a pain and requires Terminal knowledge you might not have. MacDropAny makes the process easy. With MacDropAny, you just run the app, pick a folder to sync, and pick a location in your Dropbox ...

Getting things synced up to your Dropbox cloud storage from your Windows desktop normally means moving other folders inside your My Dropbox folder. That's kind of a pain, and it can really throw a monkeywrench into your workflow. Junctions are a handy way around the problem, but the average user might not feel messing with them manually. If that's true for you, check out DropBox Folder Sync. ...

No, it won't really turn your folders gold, but Visual Subst does deserve a medal. It's little more than a GUI frontend to the Windows prompt's subst command, but if there's one thing we like more than commands that save repetitious typing it's pretty graphical systems to utilize them. What subst does is create a symbolic link - assigning any folder on your system its own drive letter. Most of ...