one folder include files from another folder, so only 1 file saved?

[unwashed potato!]

i want my dropbox to have it's own location, then within dropbox folder it refers to one folder in my work folders, then one folder in my personal folders etc.

is there anyway to do this? sure it must be real simple i just can't seem to find a way

 

[SiriusB]

So you want dropbox to sync certain folders, but you dont want those folders inside the dropbox folder?

If so, hardlinks should let you do this. Basically it is a pointer to another file on the filesystem, but as far as applications are concerned it is the file itself.

[B]fsutil hardlink[/B] [B]create[/B] [I]NewFilename[/I] [I]ExistingFilename[/I]

If you want whole folders you could use a Junction

[B]mklink /J [/B][I]newFolderName existingFolderName[/I]

So, for example:

mklink /J C:\Dropbox\work D:\mystuff\work

Hardlinks are great in that if you delete the hardlink, the original file stays, but hardlinks can only point to a file on the same partition. If you delete a file in a junctioned folder, it is deleted in the "real" folder too, so bear that in mind.

 

[unwashed potato!]

So you want dropbox to sync certain folders, but you dont want those folders inside the dropbox folder?

yes that sounds right. just like the libraries folder, if i click say music, it displays music from various locations, but in one folder. i want the same for dropbox folder.

how do i create the hardlink?