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(Mac only) Symbolic Link to sync Presets with Dropbox across two machines

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RobOK

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I was using a Symlink to point my Presets folder to a Dropbox folder which then synced across to another machine that had the same Symlink. Symlink are basically folder pointers.

With the latest upgrade, I am don't think that will work, I think the Symlinks are disabled in Library folders where the Presets now live.

Is anyone knowledgeable about this and whether there is any way to sync Presets across machines?

Thanks,
Rob.
 
You can still sync other presets this way, but for the CameraRaw folder and all its subfolders this does indeed not work.

What you can do is make a copy of the folder and place that in Dropbox. Then use a synchronisation utility to sync this copy with the original on both machines.
 
You can still sync other presets this way, but for the CameraRaw folder and all its subfolders this does indeed not work.

What you can do is make a copy of the folder and place that in Dropbox. Then use a synchronisation utility to sync this copy with the original on both machines.

So syncing from Dropbox to the Camera Raw folder -- sounds convoluted but workable. Do you have a sync tool to recommend, I don't currently use one.
 
So syncing from Dropbox to the Camera Raw folder -- sounds convoluted but workable. Do you have a sync tool to recommend, I don't currently use one.
www.goodsync.com . Mac version available. Highly recommended.

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Any decent sync utility will do, but the best utility is one that watches the folders and can be triggered to sync if something in those folders has changed. I have setup a system that runs in the background, but that was a bit more complicated because I used 'Hazel' for it. Hazel is a great utility, but it can't sync and watch folders in two directions, so I had to setup a system to make it do that anyway.
 
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