Dropbox

I'm moving my documents, music, pictures and videos from Ubuntu to Mac.

I like to use dropbox and on the old computer I had the path for documents as : Home/Dropbox/Documents. I did the same for music, pictures, videos e.g. Home/Dropbox/Pictures.

I can then save directly to Documents or Pictures and it will go directly to that Dropbox folder which I can then access easily on IOS. This means that when I click on the OS folder link for Documents I actually get my Dropbox documents and Home/Documents no longer exists.

Can anyone tell me how to do this on the Mac? So far I can only get the Dropbox folder into the Home Folder.

 

Thanks. I might not have communicated it very clearly. I don't want to delete these folders. But I want to change their location, so that they are in the dropbox folder and the OS X links on the LHS in Finder follow the path Home/Dropbox/Documents instead of Home/Documents.

I have been using it this way in Linux for several years with no problems. I shouldn't have said Home/Documents would no longer exist; its more that the path is altered.

 

Thank You Weaselboy for all that info and the command. I will try and get it working.

Thanks also numlock.

 

This command from Weaselboy : ln -s ~/Documents ~/Dropbox/Documents worked perfectly for me in Mountain Lion.

In Mavericks I get "command not found"

Anybody know what command I should use?

 

Thank you, but I get command not found.

Both commands however put a documents folder in Dropbox (even though Terminal says "Command not found") but it does not make a copy of the documents. It is 28 kb and remains that size.

 

Lots of space left.

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Thanks Weaselboy,

My result was exactly as your screenshot.

However, I got it to work this evening. Terminal still says "command not found" but it worked properly. The file in the Dropbox folder is still tiny so that had nothing to do with it, but I can now see the contents in the iPad app.

There does seem to be some glitch. I don't know why it suggests the command is wrong and wouldn't work at first, but at least it is working.

Thanks to dmorack, Weaselboy and Madmic23.