Linux - Symolic Link + Dropbox

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I am making use of the sublime 3 recently and would like to leave it standard on all my computers. For this I thought of using Dropbox, which automatically synchronizes in case of any changes.

I thought a use the symbolic links ln -s, however I remembered that this would not work, because the symbolic link is nothing more than a shortcut to the contents of the folder, this way if I change some file in place .config/sublime-text-3 He won’t do anything at Dropbox, because he doesn’t even exist there.

Researching a little I found the hark link, which seems to be what I wish, however when testing error occurred Operation not permitted, even though I give chmod -R 0777 throughout the content of .config and in the Dropbox, what I don’t want either.

Still in this context I wonder if it will be possible to link both because I would be making a symbolic link from several computers to the same location, so how would the structure of this link file?

Someone would know how to develop this case?

  • Did you try the opposite? You would leave the actual file in Dropbox and link to the program post.

  • @That’s what Pedrowitzel was, if you want to write the answer.

  • a fix: the symbolic link is not a shortcut (Windows equal) and theoretically should work, I use links like this in an application and all files are correctly identified through the link

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The ideal is to have the file you want to share saved in the Dropbox, for example:

/home/me/Dropbox/sublime/.config

Then on every computer you plan to use sublime you overwrite the original sublime file by a symbolic link to the file in Dropbox.

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