Ubuntu – Dropbox instead of the documents folder

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Hello
I was wondering if it's possible to make Dropbox sync my ~/Documents folder? I'm on Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix (Not that NBR should matter that much). I've read how to do this on Windows, and I was wondering if it's possible to do it on Ubuntu as well. Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

You could use symlinks, but you would have to do it the other way round (symlink your dropbox folder onto your documents folder). This would, to all intents and purposes make any files in your dropbox folder show up in your documents folder. The command to do this:

sudo ln -s ~/Dropbox/* ~/Documents

Obviously replace any folder names as necessary.

** EDIT **

Scratch that. This script: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=9665 will allow you to rename / move your dropbox folder wherever you want. Its not yet possible (?) to have more than one folder synced to dropbox (although it is through ubuntu one)

** EDIT 2 **

Or just switch the symlink around so it works the other way. See this: http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncOtherFolders

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