How do symbolic links work in Dropbox?

Question

I made some links to files in a folder. When I added that folder to Dropbox, the links contained duplicate copies of the files linked to. Have you had this problem? Do you understand what is happening? Is there a solution?

To make this question clearer: In the "type" column of the file manager, before connecting to Dropbox, Link_to_notes was shown to be a link and the size was 32 bytes. After connecting to Dropbox, Link_to_notes was shown to be a plain text document and the size was 18.7 kB, the size of the notes file.

Answer 1

DropBox follows symbolic links and treats them as directories and files. It's really useful for backing up without having to move files and directories into your DropBox directory.

$ ln -s ~/Documents/ ~/Dropbox/Documents