Dropbox brings your files together, in one central place. They’re easy to find and safely synced across all your devices—so you can access them anytime, anywhere. No more wasting the.
We keep all our work and files either in Desktop or Documents folder in your MAC to get an easy access to those files. There is nothing wrong about it other than cluttering all files into your Desktop or Document folder.
What will happen if your system crash or drop hard disk on the floor? You may have some back up in an external hard disk, but it is good to keep sync these files with your drop box account. Dropbox is amazing cloud storage platform that you can use to share any files between your mobile devices, MAC, Windows etc. It is stable, reliable and fast and can go here to get a free Dropbox account.
Dropbox offers you almost real time sync between your local files with Dropbox account. If you don’t have Dropbox account, please go to this link to get a free drop box account.
How to Sync MAC Desktop folder with Dropbox?
Here we show you a simple solution to sync your MAC Desktop Folder with your Dropbox account that way you get an instant backup. This is a very simple procedure and you need only one terminal command to accomplish this task in your MAC.
Step 1: Start Terminal Window to prepare the command and begin the command:
ln -s
Open your terminal window and type “ln –s” hit space and keep open (Do not hit Return or any other key at this point).
Step 2: Enter the location of your local desktop location as part of the command.
ln -s <MAC desktop folder location>
Open MAC Finder window and locate your system desktop folder from the finder. Either enter system desktop folder location into the terminal window or drag and drop the desktop folder to Terminal window to auto enter the desktop location into Terminal Window.
Step 3: Enter the location of your Dropbox Sync Folder as part of the command.
ln -s <MAC desktop folder location> <dropbox folder location>
Now create a folder in Dropbox say ‘MAC Desktop’ and type the location into terminal window and drag and drop the folder into the terminal window to auto enter the Dropbox Folder location into Terminal Window. (Assuming you have Dropbox account and setup the application already in your MAC).
Step 4: Complete the terminal command.
Now you completed your terminal command, hit “Return” (Enter) to run the command. Now all your files from MAC Desktop will sync with your Dropbox account.
You can see your Dropbox folder start to sync with your MAC desktop folder. In this method, no duplicates will generate or no need to drag and drop files each time to sync, this will do a complete auto sync between your local folder and Dropbox.
How to Sync MAC Documents folder with Dropbox?
ln -s <MAC Documnets folder location> <dropbox folder location>
MAC Documents folder is an another folder that we used to store our files. You can follow the same 4 steps explained above to sync your MAC local document folder with Dropbox. Please make sure that you change the local folder location and Dropbox location for the Documents.
How to remove MAC Desktop Sync from your Dropbox account?
You have to go to your Dropbox folder from your MAC again and find the folder that you create to sync the Desktop folder. Just delete that folder, don’t worry, it won’t delete your desktop files from your local machine. Instead, it will delete the files and sync folder from your drop box account and stop all syncing in future.
You can open your Dropbox folder and you can see syncing between your MAC Desktop/Documents and Dropbox Folder. Now you can access your MAC Desktop files from any other system if you setup the same Dropbox account on other machines.
Dropbox’s premise is simple. You get a folder (a box, if you will) where you can drop anything you want, which is then backed up to Dropbox’s servers and synced effortlessly between all your devices (including mobile). Maybe that’s a bit too simple.
You can’t sync files that are located outside Dropbox’s folder for instance. You can create symbolic links yourself, but that might be a hassle. When you use Dropbox to sync a file or folder, you can’t use anything else. For instance, a file in your Dropbox folder can’t also be in your Google Drive folder. If you’re a multi-layer backup fanatic, this can be a downer.
Dropbox Files Not Syncing
MacDropAny is an app that will solve both problems (by creating symbolic links for you).
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MacDropAny is a process-based app. You start by picking the folder you want to sync.
Then you select the cloud storage service (Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Mega, iCloud Drive, OneDrive or MediaFire). I have clients for Dropbox and Google Drive installed so first I went with Dropbox.
This will open up the Dropbox folder. Now you need to select the folder where you want the local files to sync. You can decide to sync to the root folder or create a new folder. Authenticate and you’re done.
Now, the local file will be hot linked with Dropbox. Anytime you make any changes to the local file, it will be synced with the Dropbox instance.
Syncing Same File with Multiple Cloud Backup Services
After I added a folder to Dropbox, I decided to do the same with Google Drive. The process is the same. Only, when selecting the cloud backup service, you select Google Drive.
It all worked perfectly well. To test it out, I created a new file in the folder and it was instantly synced with both Dropbox and Google Drive. To be extra sure, I went to Dropbox and opened the file from there as well. No issues.
This is a small feature but with big implications.
The ability to sync files, folders, and apps located outside of Dropbox or Google Drive is great already. You can back up apps, app data, even iCloud backups this way.
But the ability to back up one file between two services is just surreal. This means even if for some reason one backup service craps out on you, you’ve got another one ready to go.
How Will You Use MacDropAny?
How are you planning to use this new-found, out of Dropbox sync solution? Share with us in the comments below.
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