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Dropbox is a great tool for synchronising files across multiple computers or even for just keeping a copy of important documents backed up remotely but occasionally you might want to use it to sync a folder that you don’t want to keep in the Dropbox folder structure. By default Dropbox only synchronises folders in your automatically created Dropbox folder.

Fortunately there is a quick solution to this using symbolic links. A symbolic link is a special file that points to a file or folder somewhere else on your disk. You cannot create a symbolic link from the Finder it is created using the ln command in a terminal window.