Sync two home directories between macbook dropbox and hackintosh

Question

I have a 100gb pro account with Dropbox and i want to sync all or select files in my home directory between two mac's.

The way i've thought of this I only have two options..

My question is: is there a better way to do this, if not which of the two presented options in this diagram.

Option 1

Macbook Pro

home directory: /users/gorelative

Drop Box: /volumes/macintonshHD/DropBox/

symlink my home directory to a folder within dropbox

$ ln -s /users/gorelative /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox/gorelative`

Hackintosh (Desktop)

home directory: set to /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox/gorelative

Drop Box: /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox

Change the location of my homedirectory in account preferences to the folder downloaded from dropbox.

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Option 2

Macbook Pro

home directory: /users/gorelative

Drop Box: /volumes/macintonshHD/DropBox/

symlink my home directory to a folder within dropbox

$ ln -s /users/gorelative /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox/gorelative`

Hackintosh (Desktop)

home directory: set to /users/gorelative Drop Box: /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox

$ ln -s /volumes/macintoshHD/DropBox/gorelative /users/gorelative

symlink my home directory to the dropbox folder of my home dir

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Other Options?

Im sure there are other options, like changing the homedir on both machines to something with the dropbox folder.

Answer 1

Update: Found a possible duplicate that may contain answers for you: Sharing or syncing home folders between Macs

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why not just have your Dropbox folder inside your home folder, and then just store your media files inside of Dropbox? You can make your own 'Pics, Docs...' folders inside of the Dropbox folder. That way you don't risk Dropbox messing up any system or software files by having it manage file versioning in your home folder.

If you really want to sync the entire home folder, you could try something like ChronoSync . But beware, and as it says at the bottom there, and will probably ring true for many third party solutions:

"Make sure to always synchronize each time you switch over to the other computer. If you fail to do this, conflicts may arise. A conflict is when the same file has changed on both computers. Since you have to choose between one file or the other, you would lose the changes made to one of the files. If a conflict does arise, then choose the file from the computer you last used."

Answer 2

Here is what i did on both machines:

I chose to sync the following folders & files, as they are what i work with frequently. Rather than syncing my entire home directory.

Documents/
Pictures/
Projects/
Music/
Movies/
Library/
.zshrc

i moved all of the above folders/files to a user folder located in my dropbox folder at:

$ /volumes/macintoshHD/Dropbox/users/gorelative/

I then deleted these folders/files from my home directory located at:

$ /users/gorelative/

I then symlinked all of the folders/files above from my dropbox folder to my home directory.

//$ ln -s /path/to/source /path/to/destination
$ ln -s /volumes/macintoshHD/Dropbox/users/gorelative/Documents /users/gorelative/Documents
//...etc