Creating Desktop Shortcuts for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud on macOS using symlinks

With the ever growing amount of cloud storage provides, I seemly have a folder for each one. I wanted to have all of these folders alongside of the local HD accessible from my desktop so I decided to symlink them!

Symlinks are a way to create a shortcut to a folder or file. This is useful when you want to access a folder or file from a different location. Unfortunately, I didn’t see a way to create a shortcut with the icon from Finder.

Here is how I did it.