Use Dropbox in OSX and Ubuntu to synchronize any folder

Dropbox is a free cloud storage service in the United States, which can easily Synchronize files (folders ). However, Dropbox can only synchronize the content in one folder, but cannot synchronize Multiple folders at the same time. In OSX and Ubuntu, you can use the ln command to synchronize Multiple folders. Take Ubuntu as an example. To synchronize all files under/home/zhu/Documents/UbuntuConfiguration: 1. Install Dropbox and configure it properly.

Dropbox is a free cloud storage service in the United States, which can easily Synchronize files (folders ). However, Dropbox can only synchronize the content in one folder, but cannot synchronize Multiple folders at the same time. In OS X and Ubuntu, you can use the ln command to synchronize Multiple folders.

Take Ubuntu as an example. To synchronize all files under/home/zhu/Documents/UbuntuConfiguration:

1. Install Dropbox and configure it accordingly. Assume that the file to be synchronized by Dropbox is/home/zhu/Dropbox.

2. Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a terminal and enter the command ln-s/home/zhu/Documents/UbuntuConfiguration/home/zhu/Dropbox.

In this case, an icon should be added to/home/zhu/Dropbox:

Dropbox will be automatically synchronized. In the same way, you can create multiple connections to synchronize Multiple folders.

Cancel synchronization:

Delete/home/zhu/Dropbox/UbuntuConfiguration directly on the terminal (rm-rf/home/zhu/Dropbox/UbuntuConfiguration)