![]() ![]() ![]() In iTunes, go to iTunes ▶ Preferences, select the Advanced tab, and select the Dropbox folder as the iTunes Media Folder Location. Put them in Dropbox instead.Ħ Scan important personal documents–your passport, driver’s license, marriage certificate, and so on–and store the scans in Dropbox that way, you can get to them anytime you need to provide a copy.ħ Archive the original installation files of your apps so that you can install (or reinstall) them as necessary on any of your Macs.Ĩ Download PDF copies of the user manuals for products you own–appliances and home-entertainment equipment especially–from the vendors’ Web sites, and then save them all to Dropbox.ĩ As long as your music collection is small (or your Dropbox storage allotment sufficiently large), store your iTunes media in Dropbox: Create an iTunes Media folder in Dropbox and copy your media files to it. (Remember, you can upgrade from the 2GB that Dropbox gives you for free to 50GB or 100GB paid accounts.) Create symbolic links to those folders from your various machines, and you’ll have essentially the same Mac wherever you go.Ĥ If your hard drive is especially small, make room on it by moving some of your files to Dropbox.ĥ Many of us store the files and folders for active projects on the desktop. The Music and Photos folders might work if you have enough Dropbox space. If you’d rather not futz with the command line, you could instead use utilities such as MacDropAny, SymbolicLinker, or DropLink to accomplish the same thing.ģ It’s probably impractical to put your entire user folder in Dropbox, but you can put the most important folders there: The Documents folder is an obvious one. So, for example, if you wanted to move your Documents folder to Dropbox, you could do so and then enter this command in Terminal: ln -s ~/Dropbox/Documents ~/Documents. ![]() To do it manually, open Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities) and enter ln -s ~/Dropbox/newfolder ~/path/to/symbolic/link (adjusting as necessary for the locations of your folders). ![]() There are a couple of ways to create symbolic links. Once you’ve done this, whenever you appear to be saving a file to a folder on your Mac (to ~/Documents/Work, say) you’re actually saving it to Dropbox (/Dropbox/Work). Artificial Intelligence (259) Auto Tech (7) Blockchain (62) CanadianCIO (17) Careers & Education (604) Channel (59) Cloud (1068) Communications & Telecom (77) Companies (84) Data & Analytics (172) Development (25) Digital Transformation (761) Distribution (10) Diversity & Inclusion (28) eCommerce (135) Emerging Tech (42) End User Hardware (65) Engineering (1286) Financial (792) Fintech (96) Future of Work (23) Governance (17) Government & Public Sector (111) Human Resources (2077) Infrastructure (32) IoT (109) ITWC Morning Briefing (9) Leadership (2681) Legal (305) Legislation (99) Managed Services & Outsourcing (46) Marketing (1957) MarTech (6) Medical (339) Mobility (4994) Not For Profit (6) Open Source (139) Operations (5425) People (15) Podcasts (1345) Posts (4124) Privacy (774) Project Management (76) Security (2979) Service (892) Smart Home (49) smart-home (1) SMB (492) Social Networks (420) Software (78) Supply Chain (21) Sustainability (22) Tech in Sports (247) Technology (7112) Women in Tech (75)Ģ Create folders in Dropbox, and then create symbolic links to those folders on your Mac. ![]()
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