I was reading through some instructions on the Dropbox wiki for syncing things outside of the Dropbox folder and ran across a useful system service for Snow Leopard.
Nick Zitzmann’s Symbolic Linker provides a way to create symbolic links from within the Finder. There have been a few times where I found myself wanting to create a symbolic link from outside the Terminal, so I gave it a try. It puts an item in the “Services” sub-menu that appears in the Finder’s application menu, and it also shows up in contextual menus and the “Action” button in the Finder toolbar (the one with the gear icon).
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