[JimSanders]

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I have used Dropbox since the beginning for all my working and most historical documents (30-odd GB), including Quicken and the various credit card and investment files. Simple: One encrypted dmg file for Quicken and its backup history, and several other encrypted dmg files for each category of sensitive stuff. Quicken automatically saves all the stuff; I have all my info wherever; and I see no flaw in this. Of course, I clone everything weekly to two rotating externals with Super Duper. I share a great deal of my project work folders with team members and we have never lost or scrambled a document. Dropbox tells you when multiple versions conflict -- it is so easy. With 2-factor authentication and good backup -- what the heck??

Oh, yes -- one more thing -- of course use Default Folder... how can you work without it?

[rmterry]

I followed the instructions implicitly but when I use the shortcut that I created in System Preferences, the file is copied onto my desktop, not in my Important Files folder I created in Dropbox. What could be the problem?

[Chris Breen]

 rmterry, on 20 December 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

I followed the instructions implicitly but when I use the shortcut that I created in System Preferences, the file is copied onto my desktop, not in my Important Files folder I created in Dropbox. What could be the problem?

Sounds like you didn't properly set the destination in the Copy action. Be sure that 1) The folder you're copying to is within your Dropbox folder and 2) That the folder's name appears in the pop-up menu within that action. Most likely that pop-up now reads "Desktop."

[Fofer]

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Following the demise of MobileMe, I had to find some alternatives to sync my Address Book and iCal information between my computers. Some months on, the solutions I found don't seem to be what I'd like. What's the best way to sync Address Book information through DropBox? I've tried the method of making a symlink of the Address Book folder in my user Library's Application Support folder, but this seems like huge overkill and results in a lot of constant and unnecessary updating. For iCal, I just capitulated and transferred everything over to a Google Calendar, which shows up in iCal, but somehow, making all my calendar entries accessible to Google doesn't seem like a great idea either. Syncing through DropBox could work, but when I tried the symlink of the ~/Library/Application Support/iCal folder (I'm on OS 10.6.8), this resulted in large numbers of files being updated all the time, with any inconsistencies between the two computers generating extra files. What's the best strategy for syncing Address Book and iCal via DropBox?

Why in the world would you just not use iCloud to sync both?

[Fofer]

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Following the demise of MobileMe, I had to find some alternatives to sync my Address Book and iCal information between my computers. Some months on, the solutions I found don't seem to be what I'd like. What's the best way to sync Address Book information through DropBox? I've tried the method of making a symlink of the Address Book folder in my user Library's Application Support folder, but this seems like huge overkill and results in a lot of constant and unnecessary updating. For iCal, I just capitulated and transferred everything over to a Google Calendar, which shows up in iCal, but somehow, making all my calendar entries accessible to Google doesn't seem like a great idea either. Syncing through DropBox could work, but when I tried the symlink of the ~/Library/Application Support/iCal folder (I'm on OS 10.6.8), this resulted in large numbers of files being updated all the time, with any inconsistencies between the two computers generating extra files. What's the best strategy for syncing Address Book and iCal via DropBox?

Why not just use iCloud?