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Can I view symlinks on the mobile iOS app?

Hi.

I've had to move all my files to my local/internal hard drive and use symlinks within dropbox to keep them backed up but now i cant access any of them remotely.

The reason for moving them is because it was causing me all sorts of issues when running the files directly from within dropbox / file provider.

Does anyone know a way of symlinks being possible to view within the iOS app or website?

Thanks

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Benjamin Gordon wrote:
Does anyone know a way of symlinks being possible to view within the iOS app or website?

Dropbox doesnt support symlinks at all, so, you actually need to put the files in Dropbox and them symlink at the other location. Dropbox doesnt follow or sync anything symlinked. See https://help.dropbox.com/sync/symlinks for info

Benjamin Gordon

thanks. ive actually created a new system now where Carbon Copy Cloner makes a backup (mirror) version of my important local files and folders and dropbox automatically uploads them as online only.

i was having so many issues opening my files using file provider so had to switch back to legacy.

as far as i can tell a lot of pro users have had problems with apple's file provider API.

ive changed the folders to read-only so i cant accidentally open them from the mirror folder and im hoping dropbox will remember to only keep files as online only within those folders so it doesnt take up any room on my internal hard drive.

Mark

Benjamin Gordon wrote:
as far as i can tell a lot of pro users have had problems with apple's file provider API.

I've not had any and been on it since Beta. If you are having issues make sure you report it on the appropriate Dropbox Desktop Client Builds | The Dropbox Community thread.

Benjamin Gordon wrote:
ive changed the folders to read-only so i cant accidentally open them from the mirror folder and im hoping dropbox will remember to only keep files as online only within those folders so it doesnt take up any room on my internal hard drive.

As soon as a file is opened/touched or edited it will download and become offline available. You'll need to manually, I'm afraid, reset them to offline only every so often.