With, you can to iCloud Drive, but if you are a devotee, you can get the same functionality without adding to the number of cloud services you use. Dropbox offers the ability to sync folders between it and your Mac. Here's how to set it up.

First, install the on your Mac. When the app installs, it places an icon in the menu bar. Click on the icon and then click the gear icon in the lower-right corner of the Dropbox window and click Preferences. In Preferences, click the Accounts tab and then the Change Settings button for Selective Sync.

Restart Dropbox. If Dropbox has gotten stuck on one of your computers, it may be unable to upload or download files properly. It is possible that your files have synced correctly to the cloud, but. How to Fix OneDrive Sync Problems on Mac? In order to sync OneDrive, you need an Internet connection. So make sure that your Mac is able to connect to the Internet properly. Check out the file size, it should be less than 10GB. If not, then compress or resize the file and then try to sync again.

Usb optical drive for mac. This opens up a list of all of your top-level folders in Dropbox. Check the folders you would like synced between Dropbox and your Mac. A synced folder will hold two copies of each file -- one in the cloud in Dropbox and one on your Mac.

There are plenty of reasons to put things into the cloud, be it as a backup or to access them remotely from other devices. But putting things into the cloud can be a hassle — Apple's trying to make it a little more seamless with iCloud but if you're old school like me, that seamlessness just doesn't do it for you. There's something about having all my computer's files neatly organized and accessible that soothes my more obsessive tendencies. At the same time, I want to be able to access my important files while I'm on the go, and I want to know that they're backed up in case catastrophe strikes. That's where the cloud really comes in. I've got a local running (two, actually) and I use, and though I can use Backblaze to access files from my iPhone, it's just terribly slow. Enter Dropbox Dropbox, on the other hand, is blazing fast.

Uploads and downloads sling through the web as fast as my connection can handle. I can open the and get to all the files in there with ease and speed. But there were two basic options for backing up my files to Dropbox: either copy them over regularly, or just move them onto Dropbox (oh, the humanity).

Turns out, there's another way, one in which you can keep your folders and files right where they are and have them backed up and synced with Dropbox. It all works through the magic of symbolic links. How does this work?

Mac dictation vs dragon dictate. You might be familiar with alias links on your Mac — it creates a shortcut that points to another file, open the shortcut and it opens that file. A symbolic link is similar, except that instead of creating a pointer it creates a redirect. Whatever you do with the symbolic link (or symlink) is applied to the linked file.

Dropbox works by creating a folder on your computer that is synced with their servers. Place a file in that folder and it's synced to the cloud. Upload a file from a Dropbox app or their web interface and it'll be downloaded onto your computer. Basically, that's it. Thing is, if you want to back up files to Dropbox, copying them into that folder means they're taking up space twice on your hard drive, and just moving them to Dropbox takes them right out of your organizational flow.

Put a tiny symlink into Dropbox and it can back up an entire folder elsewhere on your computer If you were to create an alias to a file and put that in the Dropbox folder, only the alias would get backed up, and that's not terribly useful. But if you put a symlink into the Dropbox folder, when the Dropbox backup app looks at it it's redirected to the linked file, and it backs that up instead. So with one 25-byte symlink you can back up gigabytes upon gigabytes of data without duplicating it on your computer.

The additional benefit is that you can sync and back up entire directories that would be otherwise difficult to move. You can put your Pictures folder into Dropbox with a symlink or your entire Documents folder.

Heck, you could even sync and back up your Mac's desktop files and installed apps. This sounds too good to be true There are some caveats to note here. The first is cost: Dropbox does offer a free tier, and it's a paltry 2GB. That might be enough for you, but chances are if you're planning on putting an entire folder like Documents in there you'll need more space.