{"id":164,"date":"2016-11-03T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.ffteixeira.net\/2016\/11\/03\/how-to-make-dropbox-sync-my-documents-folder-or-another-folder\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T14:07:58","slug":"how-to-make-dropbox-sync-my-documents-folder-or-another-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Dropbox Sync My Documents Folder or another folder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Go to the "Start<\/strong>" menu and type "cmd<\/strong>".<\/p>\n

Right-click on the "cmd" and choose "Run as administrator<\/strong>".<\/p>\n

In the following window, type "mklink \/d<\/strong>".<\/p>\n

Open the "Dropbox" folder and copy the folder's path.<\/p>\n

Paste it into "cmd<\/strong>" window. In the same line, type "<new folder name><\/strong>". Go to "My Documents<\/strong>" folder and copy the folder's path.<\/p>\n

Paste it into "cmd<\/strong>" window. Press "Enter<\/strong>" key and you will see a message – "symbolic link created<\/strong>".<\/p>\n

Go to the "Dropbox" folder. Open the "linked" folder. All files from "My documents" folder are synced.<\/p>\n

Example: mklink \/d "c:\\users\\test\\Dropbox\\<folder_name_to_create>" "c:\\users\\test\\Documents" <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Go to the "Start" menu and type "cmd". Right-click on the "cmd" and choose "Run as administrator". In the following window, type "mklink \/d". Open the "Dropbox" folder and copy the folder's path. Paste it into "cmd" window. In the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ffteixeira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}