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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,

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