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Duplicate Folder contents
hello,
I have a large amount of music, in folders by artist and subfolders by album, on an external hard drive that I would like to copy to my Dropbox.
Some of them are already on my Dropbox but ...
Здравко Thank you for your input! :slight_smile:
Anjistar Have you tried the features that can save your hard drive space? If not, please take the time to check them out: Selective Sync, Smart Sync.
I am suggesting the Dropbox desktop app because the website has limitations on uploads. Read about this here.
Finally, Allan G. I would like to add that dragging the existing files in the Dropbox folder, would take less time, than uploading online and manually deleting the files from your drive.
Note: :pushpin:
- You will not need to wait with your browser open for the syncing to complete.
- You can set up settings for the desktop app to sync faster.
- The local copies can be removed by our system automatically with syncing features. Please check Selective Sync and Smart Sync using the hyperlinks offered above.
Hope this is helpful everyone.
Keep in touch! :grin: Would love to get more feedback on this and provide a solution any other concerns.
Thank you!
Hi Anjistar,
As far as I can follow current discussion, your problem comes, probably, from fact that you are using one big directory for everything. The idea of "Selective Sync" is to remove from local filesystem everything currently not in use, so local space 'relax'. The problem comes from fact that files your try to override are not locally located and you can't do this in a trivial way! That's where the conflicts come from. :wink:
Good practice will be change your work files organization. The files can be grouped in such a way one subfolder to contain everything you work on currently. This folder to be in sync locally, others could be removed (spare local space). So, as Fiona already mentions, Windows OS will have chance to take care for the rest. :wink: Good question here is: Why you keep two copies for files you work on? Give an answer to yourself, which can help the reorganization.
Hope this helps.
Fiona
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffЗдравко Thank you for your input! :slight_smile:
Anjistar Have you tried the features that can save your hard drive space? If not, please take the time to check them out: Selective Sync, Smart Sync.
I am suggesting the Dropbox desktop app because the website has limitations on uploads. Read about this here.
Finally, Allan G. I would like to add that dragging the existing files in the Dropbox folder, would take less time, than uploading online and manually deleting the files from your drive.
Note: :pushpin:
- You will not need to wait with your browser open for the syncing to complete.
- You can set up settings for the desktop app to sync faster.
- The local copies can be removed by our system automatically with syncing features. Please check Selective Sync and Smart Sync using the hyperlinks offered above.
Hope this is helpful everyone.
Keep in touch! :grin: Would love to get more feedback on this and provide a solution any other concerns.
Thank you!
- Thanks for your reply, Fiona, I have already done all the selective syncing I can do, but I will try the smart sync option and get back to you.
- Fiona
Thanks for your kind response. :relieved:
If you need any hep with this we are always here for you!
Have a nice weekend.
Syncing - whether Selective or "Smart" has not worked out well for me. I'm in the same situation of wanting to manually load to Dropbox and having to go through the tedious process of identifying anything with a "(1)" to delete them en masse. The prior Dropbox setup allowed me to sync without having issues of inadvertently having things end up on Dropbox rather than my machine and using too much space on my pc as well. I personally do WANT two copies - the ones on my own PC and the ones within Dropbox because I need the ability to access files when on other devices and I also wish to keep many files safe should I have an equipment issue. I had tried the backup process with the new Dropbox app and that ended up being a nightmare and undoing it took hours. So now I have completely removed the desktop app and I work solely on the web. I sincerely wish that Dropbox would make the web version easier as I suspect that many users would prefer that environment overall to some of the issues with the new app. Just chiming in here because I think it is important that people understand that not everyone wants software to make decisions on their files, file structure, ability to store, update, etc. One of the greater advantages to Dropbox has been the control of the file owners.
