1. Dropbox won't sync files that you don't have read permissions.

2. You'd better not merge an old Dropbox folder while installing/configuring Dropbox.

3. You'd better not store symbolic links in the Dropbox folder, because the symbolic links will be replaced by the real files/folders when synchronized to other computers.

4. It …

Tips and Traps

1. Almost all sychronization tools have problems with symbolic links. Most of them just ignore symbolic links. This makes sense as following symbolic links can causes serious disk problems. If not followed then symbolic links are likely broken on other device. The simple suggestion is do not place …

Tips and Traps

1. You can download a Windows 10 Virtual Machine at Get a Windows 10 development environment !

2. winget is the official Windows Package Manager CLI and Chocolatey is a cool community-driven software management tool for Windows.

3. When a file is being synchronized by Dropbox, it might be unaccessible temporarily …

The kernel of Linux is usually very stable, but the existing free desktop environments are craps. Amongs these desktop environments I tried (Gnome, Xfce, LXDE and so on), none is even close to the desktop environments in Windows and Mac. I do not require desktop environments in Linux to be …