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imported>Lostcalpolydude →Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on a Mac: linux section looks simpler, but only if you know what you're doing to begin with |
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==Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on non-Windows systems== | ==Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on non-Windows systems== | ||
Open the command-line interface for your OS, | Open the command-line interface for your OS. For linux, type in:<br> | ||
ln -s ~/.kolmafia /path/to/dropbox/folder/KoLmafia | ln -s ~/.kolmafia /path/to/dropbox/folder/KoLmafia | ||
For a Mac, type in:<br> | |||
ln -s /Library/Application\ Support/KoLmafia /path/to/dropbox/folder/KoLmafia | |||
==Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on a Mac== | ==Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on a Mac== | ||
Revision as of 07:03, 18 June 2010
Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on non-Windows systems
Open the command-line interface for your OS. For linux, type in:
ln -s ~/.kolmafia /path/to/dropbox/folder/KoLmafia
For a Mac, type in:
ln -s /Library/Application\ Support/KoLmafia /path/to/dropbox/folder/KoLmafia
Setting up symlinks for Dropbox on a Mac
If you're using a Mac, and the section above made no sense, here are step-by-step instructions that will get you there.
- Open Terminal.app. This is in /Applications/Utilities, or you can just use Spotlight to find it.
- Open Finder, and navigate to the folder containing your Dropbox folder.
- In Terminal, type "cd ", then drag the Dropbox folder onto the Terminal window, then press Enter.
- Leave the quotes out for all of these commands and make sure to include the trailing space. Copy-pasting the commands is advised.
- In Terminal, type "ln -s /Library/Application\ Support/KoLmafia KoLmafia", then press enter.
- You now have a symbolic link, and Dropbox will back up your mafia settings files.