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derpsn
5 months agoNew member | Level 2
Switching from One Drive to Dropbox
Hello everyone,
Onedrive is slowly but surely driving me crazy. The main problem I'm having with it is that you can't exclude folders from the root folder for documents. As many of you know, exclud...
derpsn
New member | Level 2
But I have seen that the desktop app is able to add my external document folder.
So not by default, but I can add it, right?
Mark
5 months agoSuper User II
derpsn wrote:
But I have seen that the desktop app is able to add my external document folder.
So not by default, but I can add it, right?
That is Dropbox backup which does not sync, but instead backup. They did beta test it outside of Backup but stopped it.
Dropbox syncing (as in what you are used to with OneDrive) can only sync what is inside the \Dropbox directory.
- derpsn5 months agoNew member | Level 2
All right. That's a real bummer.
So I won't have any benefits here 😞
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