Dropbox and junction

So you have Dropbox, and a workflow folder that is shared with other users. Let's say that folder is

C:\USERS\JONES\Dropbox\WORK\Pomodoro

You'd really like to have that folder located where your other workflow folders are located, something like

C:\WORK\Pomodoro

Here is how you do it:

1. get and install junction

2. run these commands from the shell

        C:\> cd c:\work

        C:\WORK> junction c:\work\Pomodoro "c:\users\rich\dropbox\work\Pomodoro"

or from the xplorer2 address bar:

> junction c:\work\Pomodoro "c:\users\rich\dropbox\work\Pomodoro"

From now on, any* Windows operation that references "c:\work\pomodoro" will actually direct to "c:\users\rich\dropbox\work\pomodoro"

* Warning:

If you use xplorer², know that this program does not respect junctions. So if you do a file search in c:\work through all subfolders for a file matching or containing a particular string, it will not actually search the Pomodoro folder. So you have to do your search from "c:\users\rich\dropbox\work" or wherever.