{"id":103,"date":"2013-12-22T08:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2014-02-23T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:50:19","slug":"dropbox-setup-symbolic-links-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/dropbox-setup-symbolic-links-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox: Symbolic links on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/\" title=\"Dropbox\">Dropbox<\/a> is a neat little tool for automagically storing your data on the cloud and accessing them across different machines. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qxf2.com\" title=\"Qxf2 Services\">Qxf2 Services<\/a>, we use a combination of Dropbox and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/\">Evernote<\/a> to store and backup non-confidential data. I personally would use <a href=\"http:\/\/foldergrid.com\/\">FolderGrid<\/a> when I really *need* to share confidential files.   <\/p>\n<p>All files stored under your designated Dropbox folder are synched with the cloud. On Windows, if you want to synch folders without moving them into the designated folder, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Run command prompt as administrator<br \/>\n   > Start > type &#8216;cmd&#8217; > right click on command prompt and &#8216;Run as administrator&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/run_as_administrator.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/run_as_administrator-242x300.png\" alt=\"run_as_administrator\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/run_as_administrator-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/run_as_administrator.png 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Use the <b>mklink<\/b> command in your command prompt to create a symbolic link:<br \/>\n   > mklink \/d your_dropbox_folder\\new_folder_name folder_you_want_to_synch<br \/>\n   E.g.: To synch a folder called &#8216;C:\\chess&#8217; and your dropbox directory is &#8216;C:\\dropbox&#8217;, run<\/p>\n<p>   <code>mklink \/d C:\\dropbox\\chess C:\\chess<\/code><\/p>\n<p>   If the link was successful, you should see the message:<br \/>\n   <code>symbolic link created for C:\\dropbox\\chess <<===>> C:\\chess<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! Now your folder is automatically synched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is a neat little tool for automagically storing your data on the cloud and accessing them across different machines. At Qxf2 Services, we use a combination of Dropbox and Evernote to store and backup non-confidential data. I personally would use FolderGrid when I really *need* to share confidential files. All files stored under your designated Dropbox folder are synched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qxf2.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}