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I need to put the Dropbox folder inside the root path, this way:

cd /Dropbox

I can't create first a normal folder because Dropbox automatically creates a Dropbox folder nested in it... so it would result in this (like It does now) cd /folder/Dropbox

What would be the problem if I give a "sudo chmod +w /"? So I could initialize Dropbox inside the root path? No problem if other files would be written in the / since there are no important files loaded in there, and anyway users wouldn't be allowed to write in the subfolder like /etc. Is that right?

Damiano Barbati
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    why do you need to put your Dropbox folder into `/Dropbox`? This seem a very unhealthy requirement for me for a start – jolivier Aug 27 '12 at 10:05
  • Because I'm trying to get a homogeneous working environment. I work with both osx and linux, and I need all of my shortcuts inside the bashrc to be almost the same, and all of the several paths I always use to be the same (every .conf and a lot of files inside my projects which I keep in my Dropbox folder). – Damiano Barbati Aug 27 '12 at 10:11
  • Environment variables are typically used for this, like `JAVA_HOME` for where java is installed for instance. If I were you my scripts would all read the same env variable. Otherwise all your projects will only be usable by you, that's kind of sad ^^. An intermediate solution is the `/opt/` folder or the `/usr/local/` one, which are less problematic for permissions. – jolivier Aug 27 '12 at 10:18
  • ok I'll go for env :( Thanks!! – Damiano Barbati Aug 27 '12 at 10:26

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