Synching via Dropbox on Windows

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Dropbox recently changed the way they handle symlinks.

Only files and folders in your computer’s Dropbox folder will be backed up

    For example, if you have a symlink in Dropbox that links to a folder outside 
    Dropbox, we won’t back up that folder that’s outside of Dropbox. So on
    www.dropbox.com you’ll just see a symlink—not a folder.

See https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integrations/sync-uploads/symlinks.

That means the guide https://packagecontrol.io/docs/syncing#dropbox-windows no longer works.

What does work now is to move the User directory into the Dropbox on the first machine, then create the link in the Packages folder, same as for the other machines.