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Yes, and you don’t even need to pass the destination name if it is the same as the source (if your current directory is ~/ of course…)

ln -s ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox

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Should a symlink also work to solve the "Dropbox on an external drive" issue that this change will create?

(I suspect it will as a folder is a folder as far as the OS is concerned, but I haven't tinkered much with symlinks).

I don’t think so, unless you are able to create a symlink from the Library/CloudStorage folder to an external drive. I suspect there are some limitations related to this. But I haven’t tried this specific case. But on advice from Dropbox support I did try to symlink from Dropbox to ‘Dropbox (UniName)’ to avoid the space and parentheses in the folder name. This seemingly worked, but after weeks of syncing problems I capitulated and instead link in the other direction… (this isn’t solving the problem of space in the folder name that some software doesn’t like, but syncing now works at least)

I should definitely be able to MAKE the symlink, though I'm not sure how well it will work. Thanks for the input!

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