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creating symbolic link to Dropbox on two different computers

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This is what I am hoping to do -- on computer A and on computer B That is, I want Dropbox/folder linking to external folders on both computers. My hope is that this way I will not only have ~/folder synchronized on both computers via Dropbox, I will also have the contents on the computer, in case Iā€¦

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computer A/~/Dropbox/folder@ -> /~/Documents/folder

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Fix for: creating symbolic link to Dropbox on two different computers

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You can't. The symlink will be synchronized, but the actual directory and its contents will remain on each computer. You should do it the other way around, i.e. put the real content under and then symlink to it from outside.

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