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Temporary fix for using symlinks with google drive (gdrive) on mac
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Because gdrive will not actually sync symlinks from your computer to gdrive, you should temporarily do the opposite. | |
For example, I wanted to have a symlink from my ~/Sites directory to automatically sync with gdrive, so i did the simple command: | |
ln -s ~/Sites/drive ~/Google\ Drive/mSites/ | |
That will not sync at the moment. | |
So instead I made a directory in gdrive and did a symlink back in my ~/Sites directory | |
ln -s ~/Google\ Drive/mSites/ ~/Sites/drive |
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@ultra haven't tried it but kudos for that creative idea!! :)
this handy little app by whiz kid Sebastian somehow miraculously works too like a charm, although it reverses the general concept of symlinks (creates alias from target to source, instead of the other way around): http://www.zibity.com/macdropany.html
see also CLI apps
hln
selkhateeb/hardlink as well as qwzybug/hln, the latter cribbed fromif the several "Mount as disk" apps out there (comprehensive open source and commercial app list to follow) would actually show the real space quota (looking at you Expansys, WebDrive) or would offer an actual decent trial (SyncMate) then that would be awesome, because files are synced directly to the cloud without being cached on disk! OSS solutions include WingFS, OSXFuse (via cloud provider plugins), ... I'm sure there's others as well :)