[OS X TeX] Disaster

[M. Tamer Özsu]

Naturally you need to set the symlink to the same directories/files on all the machines. Otherwise, you will observe what you reported, namely that on the machines where you did not define the symlink, the directory/file will be an actual one in ~/Dropbox.

So, you are right — turn off Dropbox, do your thing, and then turn it on and it works. At least works for me.

==Tamer
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M. Tamer Özsu
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On 2015-08-26, 2:56 PM, "MacOSX-TeX on behalf of Ettore Aldrovandi" <macosx-tex-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu on behalf of ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:

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>> On Aug 26, 2015, at 14:27, M. Tamer Özsu <ozsut at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dropbox on MacOS does understand symbolic links — I am using it daily. It does not understand them on Windows and I haven’t checked Linux.
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>Have you tried to run the experiment I mention in my previous message? Or did you set the links on the various machines you sync before turning Dropbox syncing on?
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>I tried this: on machine A symlink ~/path/to/file.pdf to your Dropbox, so that ~/Dropbox/file.pdf is really a symlink to ~/path/to/file.pdf. Edit or change, maybe check your Dropbox through a browser, everything will look OK, including the symlink. Now login machine B: ~/Dropbox/file.pdf is an actual  PDF file. Change that one (e.g. load it in Preview, rotate, annotate, whatever) and let it sync. Go back to machine A. You’ll find that ~/Dropbox/file.pdf is now an actual PDF file, no?
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>—Ettore
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