dropbox Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore Note: This post is about is a homegrown solution to backups/restores I developed four years ago, not the newly-announced Dropbox Backup. I originally developed this method for four reasons:
dropbox Using Dropbox For An Easy Restore Of All Your Computer's Settings Just to be clear, Dropbox isn’t backup software; it’s a syncing service. If you delete a file and that change is synced, and your file no longer exists.
dropbox Customize The Dropbox Syncing Icon To Whatever You Want You can create your own icons to replace the Dropbox badges that appear that the bottom-right of folders in your Dropbox. All you need is an image editor and an
hazel How I Went Paperless And Clutter-free For $32 Ever since I discovered Dropbox, I felt weighed down by the clutter of physical documents. I use it for all of my digital documents. After a while, physical documents and
dropbox Automatically Sort Dropbox Camera Uploads Based On Their Geographical Data I have been a long time fan of using Dropbox to manage my photos, even with the release of Photos. I have especially liked it ever since Dropbox enabled Camera
hazel Batch Rotate Photo Files With Hazel and sips If you have a ton of photos that are all facing the wrong direction and don’t want to do them individually, you can use Hazel to automatically go through
dropbox Trigger Scripts Via Dropbox And Hazel I haven’t found a great use for this yet, but you can have your Mac automatically run a script by simply creating a file/folder in your Dropbox. To
hazel Reduce And Resize Dropbox Camera Uploads Automatically With Hazel I usually use my iPhone to take pictures for my Website and then upload them via the Dropbox app so they appear on my computer. This is a nice feature,
dropbox Backup OpenEmu Save States to Dropbox OpenEmu is one of the best ways to play your favorite retro games. A long-time feature of emulators is the “save state,” which acts like a long-term Pause button. It
dropbox Un-clutter Your Dropbox on Mac Using chflags and ln Dropbox integrates with a lot of different apps. If you use a lot of these third-party apps, your Dropbox might start to get cluttered and look like this: I wanted
