Every time I want to create a symlink on the command line it seems to take me half an hour. I never get the syntax right as many times as I read the documentation, so I’m posting here with what makes sense to me and my use of Dropbox.

Usually I want to relocate a local folder to Dropbox so that it’s backed up. As an example, I might have a mystuff folder in my user’s home directory.

1. Move the current mystuff folder to Dropbox.
2. Run this from the command line.

   ln -s ~/Dropbox/mystuff ~/mystuff

3. Enjoy the piece of mind that data is automatically backed up.