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Bryan D.3
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

mapping my dropbox as a network drive and not store locally

Hi I would like to save my visual studio projects on dropbox but not on my local computer. I would like to map it as a network drive. I don't believe selective sync is going to work for this. So I...
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Rich
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10 years ago

That's not what he's referring to, Rick. He means to have a folder or virtual drive on his computer that is directly linked to the files in his account (nothing stored locally, files accessed directly from the Dropbox servers through Explorer or Finder).

Joe, Dropbox has stated in the past that they have no plans to provide such functionality. Dropbox is intended as a file synchronization service; not a cloud-based folder or drive.

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