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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: restoring from backups was never a seamless or pain-free processsettings and preferences I adjusted over time were inevitably lost and

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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. I really love the things you can do with Dropbox. And since I’m stingy, I wanted to use Dropbox

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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 app to convert images to icons. Creating A Custom Dropbox Syncing BadgeIn the image above, I changed the “sync complete”

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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 pieces of paper began to get on my nerves. It was much easier to have searchable PDFs that I could

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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 Uploads from their iOS app. With my latest script, I can now upload photos from my iPhone and have them

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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 a folder and rotate the images for you. All it takes is a one-line bash script and a Hazel rule.

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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 do this, you need to set up Hazel to watch your Dropbox folder for a certain file/folder, and if

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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, but the photos are way too large to use on a Website. Instead of opening each one in Preview, scaling

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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 will save your game in the exact spot you decide (not just at a checkpoint in the game). You could

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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 to have all my third-party apps to be in a single folder called Applications. I first tried just moving the