How to sync my Dropbox files with a preferred local folder?
Dropbox currently does not support syncing folders outside the Dropbox folder, according to their web site.
However you can achieve this by creating a symbolic link
between the Dropbox folder and the other folder you want sync, using this command:
sudo ln -s ~/Dropbox **/path/to/another/folder**
So when you go inside /path/to/another/folder
, you will be taken into ~/Dropbox
Make sure the other folder is accessible after linking.
According to their site https://www.dropbox.com/help/12/en you can't sync folders outside the Dropbox folder, but there is a workaround in Ubuntu
To get other folders synced into Dropbox you have to create a symbolic link
from the target folder to the Dropbox folder
For example:
ln -sfn ~/Documents ~/Dropbox