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It will still live safely on your Dropbox account, but it won’t show up on your computer. With Selective Sync, you can tell Dropbox whether or not to even sync a folder to your computer at all.

This means the folder will still be visible on your hard drive, but it won’t take up any space. With Smart Sync, you can select a folder on your computer and tell Dropbox to make it online-only. When you desktop sync your Dropbox folder to your computer, the files on your Dropbox appear in a dedicated folder on your hard drive.ĭropbox has two powerful tools for managing this storage.

It has a web interface that works great, but the real power is in the desktop sync interface. On Mac and Linux pop open a console and use the "ln -s /path/to/drobox/place/where/you/put/your/stuff /original/path/thing" commandīonus, you can share folders with your friends so you all can use each other's computers to play or whatever, for instance, next I'm making sure me and my gf can play WoW on any of our computers with the same addons and addons preferences.A quick primer on Dropbox if you aren’t already familiar:ĭropbox is, like Google Drive, a cloud based storage solution for your files. On windows, drag the folder back to where it was with the right button and select Drop Here -> Symbolic Link, it will pop up an authorization thinggy, but it's ok. In this case I'm moving the Addons folder Now find what you want to sync and MOVE it to a folder on dropbox: (my pictures examples are with wow addons and settings on windows 7) Windows 7 only: Get Shell Link Extension

If you're on Ubunto it's available on the software center thinggy. vimrc across my linux machines, but yeah using it for gaming:įirst of all you need dropbox, I'd shamelessly put here my referal link but it's against the rules, so (why on earth are you not using this yet anyway?) make and account and stuff. It's the same I've used for years to sync my pidgin settings and. I started using this technique to sync saved games so I can continue my massive Civilization games when my gf is sleeping at her house.