I use simlinks except unshared folder situations as the person moved the 
smiling after it had downloaded and promptly got rid of 20 gigs of stuff I 
needed. oops? but it does work.

Tc.
On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Gordon Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> You know, I think I must be doing this wrongly because I really cannot see 
> how it's sustainable.  Let me explain.
> 
> I have a folder on our local drive called "DropBox".  Inside of that folder, 
> there are a lot of other folders which I have copies of elsewhere on the hard 
> drive.  Our start disk is becoming severely restricted.  So, what I really 
> want to know is how are you supposed to store these files?  Some of them are 
> very very important and very personal to our lives.  I don't feel comfortable 
> with the only copies of those files being within the cloud, even though they 
> do go to our other machines as well.  But I can't really sustain the concept 
> of keeping absolutely everything on DropBox and also on the hard drive.  It's 
> just not sustainable.  Is there a way to have DropBox maintain folders on one 
> machine, but not on others which are synced to the same account?
> 
> This is why I was really hoping that the Fritz!Box might be the answer by 
> allowing me to add network drives accessible by NAS.  But our drives are all 
> Mac OS X format and it seems that the Fritz!Box doesn't like the format.
> 
> Gordon
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