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Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore

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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 [https://jacobsalmela.com/2016/12/15/using-dropbox-for-an-easy-restore-of-all-your-computers-settings/] , not the newly-announced Dropbox Backup [https://www.dropbox.com/features/cloud-storage/computer-backup]. I originally developed this method for four reasons: * restoring from backups was never a

Using Dropbox For An Easy Restore Of All Your Computer's Settings

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 [https://jacobsalmela.com/tag/dropbox/]. And since I’m stingy,

Customize The Dropbox Syncing Icon To Whatever You Want

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 [http://www.img2icnsapp.com/]. Creating A Custom Dropbox Syncing Badge In the image above,

How I Went Paperless And Clutter-free For $32

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

Automatically Sort Dropbox Camera Uploads Based On Their Geographical Data

Automatically Sort Dropbox Camera Uploads Based On Their Geographical Data

I have been a long time fan of using Dropbox to manage my photos [http://lifehacker.com/why-i-ditched-photo-management-apps-and-use-dropbox-ins-1063233673] , 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 [https://jacobsalmela.com/tag/scripting], I can

Batch Rotate Photo Files With Hazel and sips

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 [http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php] to automatically go through a folder and rotate the images for you. All it takes is a one-line

Trigger Scripts Via Dropbox And Hazel

Trigger Scripts Via Dropbox And Hazel

I haven’t found a great use for this yet, but you can have your Mac automatically [https://jacobsalmela.com/tag/automation/] 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

Reduce And Resize Dropbox Camera Uploads Automatically With 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, but the photos are way too large to use on a Website. Instead of opening each one in Preview [https:

Backup OpenEmu Save States to Dropbox

Backup OpenEmu Save States to Dropbox

OpenEmu [http://openemu.org/] 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

Un-clutter Your Dropbox on Mac Using chflags and ln

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