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Unfortunately there’s no symlinking as Dropbox disabled support for external symlinks quite a few years ago. This makes Dropbox inconvenient for backups as you need to move the real directories into Dropbox and put symlinks in their original locations.

This latest change was the final straw for me. Apple is trying to force users into iCloud and Dropbox has no option other than to comply. Preventing third-party cloud storage providers from syncing the Photos library seems like anti-competitive behaviour to me, but if there is a lawsuit here it’s years off.

I’ve since moved to using B2 and rclone to back up key directories on my machine. This is cheaper than Dropbox (for my usage, ymmv) and I can back up whatever I want without having to jump through any hoops. Of course, not so good if you want to sync stuff between machines. But it works well for backup.