Trouble getting dropbox to work...

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I've got a lot of files. Way more than I'd want to put in dropbox. I have dropbox installed, and it has a local folder it syncs. I put aliases in there for the folders I want to have in dropbox. That's what https://www.dropbox.com/help/12/en says to do.

But I noticed not that may files uploaded, and when I checked the web interface they're all just generic looking file icons and show up as files rather than folders.

How can I share just a select group of files (a few hundred of them) without moving them?

Thanks