Symbolic Link to Encrypted Folder disappear on reboot

Good day
I have a symbolic link from an encrypted folder "/Volume/important Files/" that point to Dropbox folder
ln -s /Volumes/important\ Files ~/Dropbox/important
I have additional 'ln' to other files that are NOT encrypted (e.g. a docs folder, some pictures, SecureCRT sessions etc). These symbolic links are fine, however the symbolic link for the encrypted folder never survives a reboot.
I was wondering if anyone knew the order of operation if I set the encrypted folder to auto mount (which it is not doing now) in relation to the symbolic link.
Thanks

Have you tried putting the link in a different location?
the disappearance might not be tied to the encrypted folder as much as the Volumes folder maybe getting "cleaned up" removing mount points for nonexistent shares.

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"synterx" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:fqf16p$kj2$[email protected]..
> Not Unix unfortunately. I believe its 2003 or something.
I know it's an
> all
> Windows network.
>
> I don't need to do anything fancy. I need to link to
files on the network,
> but
> can't have them copied into the root folder for the
site. A symbolic link
> or
> alias if you will, is the perfect solution. I have to
find a way to do
> this.
> Contribute physically copies the files you link to
outside the root, and
> this
> can't work in my situation. DW at least asks if you want
to copy it,
> Contribute
> just does it with zero option to stop it. It's a shame
really that we
> can't get
> a simple popup asking in Contribute.
in IIS you would need to make a virtual folder that points to
the folder in
question somewhere on the network. However, dealing with
varying network
permissions can be a major PITA.

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