Sooner or later this will break. I used this method for years. However, the latest versions of Dropbox (around 2.6.7) screwed the whole thing up: since Dropbox doesn't support symlinks, it frequently “thinks” that the permissions of the symlinks is the permissions that the linked-to files should have. And since symlinks often look like “lrwxrwxrwx” it will chmod the original files 0777, i.e. user, group AND world writable, which is probably not what you want.<p>E.g., I had symlinked my webserver's directories into Dropbox, only to find out that all the files had their permissions changed to “-rwxrwxrwx”.<p>Your mileage may vary, but be sure you know what you're doing. Dropbox is unreliable with symlinks.