Symbolic Linker 4+
Sync any folder to cloud drive
Honghao Zhang
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- $1.99
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Description
To enable the Quick Action:
1. Go to "System Preferences",
2. Choose "Extensions"
3. In "Finder", check "Make Symbolic Link"
Enjoy the convenient Quick Action!
The Symbolic Linker is a handy tool for creating symbolic links (soft links).
The big cloud storage services — Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and others - all have the same problem: they can only synchronize folders inside the cloud storage folder.
However, you want to synchronize other folders like ~/Desktop, ~/Documents that can't be moved into the cloud storage folder.
Fortunately, there’s a way around this limitation: symbolic links.
By creating symbolic links to folders that can't be moved, then moving the symbolic links into the cloud storage folder, you're able to sync any folder.
The Symbolic Linker supports creating symbolic links for single and multiple files/directories via:
- Dragging the target files/directories and export the corresponding symbolic links.
- From macOS Mojave and above, right click on files/directories, under "Quick Actions", select "Make Symbolic Link".
No more hassle of typing command lines.
What’s New
Version 1.2
Now you can use Finder Quick Action -> Make Symbolic Link to create symbolic links.
Ratings and Reviews
Good
Shame it only works with absolute path, would be great if it can detect volume and create relative paths from there.
Awesome App!
So not only is this a tme saver insead of using termial to create my syminks, it just works! I have even gone and renamed the symlinks after crating them and they still work. For such a little function this helper program rocks, and saves me a ton of time on dev projects!
The only thing it is missing is being able to take a group of folders, or items, all at once and create symlinks for each one. That one little feature of being able to do folders in builk would make this prgra a 6 star app instead of 5 stars :)
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your great feedback. Yeah, I've planed the exact feature you mentioned above. You could be able to drag a group of items and specify different links. I would like to bring this to you soon.
Works as described
I am using Mohave 10.4. I have used Terminal to create symbolic links. Every time it makes me nervous. This program is intuitive and works well.
It labels the alias with the original name plus "symlink." I suspect you can change the alias to whatever name you want, but I kind of like the addition. The icon is the usual alias icon.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for your feedback! Yes, you could rename the symbolic file to whatever name you want. Just make sure to recreate a symbolic link if the original file/folder moved or renamed. Enjoy!
App Privacy
The developer, Honghao Zhang, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Honghao Zhang
- Size
- 4.7 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.13 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2019 ChouTi.io
- Price
- $1.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.