<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2016, at 20:44, Ross Moore <<a href="mailto:ross.moore@mq.edu.au" class="">ross.moore@mq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Hi Herb,
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On 3 Nov 2016, at 10:58, Herb Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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I think the best thing to do is copy the files into a folder and create symlinks in the Dropbox folder of the source files and graphics, etc., but not the aux, etc,, files on one computer.<br class="">
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<div class="">Will that actually work? Have you tried it?</div>
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<div class="">If the target of the symlink changes, will that cause an update in the Cloud?</div>
<div class="">The symlink file itself has not changed on disk — if it is a “soft” link via ln -s </div>
<div class="">— so what would trigger DropBox to update and broadcast this to other clients?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>A simlink _in_ Dropbox to a file in some other folder won’t work in the intended way. Dropbox (or other cloud services) don’t have a concept of symlink. As soon as it syncs it will actually copy the link’s target. So, if you edit _that_ on a remote machine it will break your link on the one you initially set it up.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">
<div class="">If you use a “hard” link — ln with no option — then I suppose it would </div>
<div class="">do the right thing for DropBox, as now the file information does update.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>More or less same behavior. It copies the files, so you end up with two separate copies. Check the inodes.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Ettore</div><br class=""></body></html>