Using DropBox on a Macintosh to backup files

[Jamin2112]

I'm intending to backup the source files of a program I'm working on. So what I tried to do is

left-click-->Make Alias

with each of the source files and then moved the aliases to my DropBox folder on my computer. I assumed this would have the effect of having the source files being saved in my DropBox account as well as on my machine whenever I save my work. But the alias files have some weird encoding.

Also, I just made a GitHub account and I'm wondering whether there's a way to use my GitHub client to automatically sync the most recent version of the project on my computer.

 

[Borg]

What do you mean by automatically synching? You can synch GitHub files but you have to at least tell it to synch. Are you referring to a commit?

 

[jtbell]

An alias in Mac OS is not a copy of the original file. It's a sort of "pointer" file that contains information that tells the OS where to find the original file. When you double-click on the alias, the OS opens the original file.

 

[Jamin2112]

What do you mean by automatically synching? You can synch GitHub files but you have to at least tell it to synch. Are you referring to a commit?

I want to continuously "push" a GitHub repository, I guess

 

[Jamin2112]

I probably should've learned GitHub terminology before making this thread