title: Sharing Eclipse directory on Dropbox between Windows and Mac OS X
body: <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1567394/share-folder-including-eclipse-workspace-with-git-between-winxp-and-mac-os-x">This question</a> was close to mine, but not quite.</p>
  
  <p>I have a Windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. I'd like to be able to keep my Eclipse workspace in my <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTEzMTAzNjk" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Dropbox</a> folder. The problem is that many project settings change between platforms: references to JREs, JDKs, and other libs.</p>
  
  <p>Every discussion I've seen of this problem seems to suggest taking advantage of the source control system's ignore functionality, so that such-and-such file remains local-only and thus able to remain platform-specific. But when you're working with a real single shared folder, that class of solution doesn't apply.</p>
  
  <p>Have you had luck working with a Java Eclipse project living in a single folder shared over the network, cross-platform?</p>