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Forum Discussion
Adding an external drive to iPad for “Make Available Offline” location
Can we get the ability to make an external hard drive the off-line location for Dropbox content in the iPad app?
Hi Walter - a pleasure to be here!
One of the key benefits for me with Dropbox App on the Mac, is the option in the preferences to make any drive, external or internal, the location for files that I "Make Available offline". This is probably the feature that pushes me to choose DropBox over all other cloud options.
With other providers, all offline files have to be cached locally before moving to external storage. I work in Film and Television, and I don't want those massive files constantly hitting my system drive before I inevitably move them to a working drive.
My workflow on the Mac is to have a drive that is dedicated to my DropBox App. This way, if I tell a folder to always be "Available Offline", then when large files are shared with me from clients, they are automatically made available locally as fast as possible, and even ready to work with if I should choose to work off my DropBox drive (dangerous I know, though sometimes I live that way in a given situation LOL).
I would like to have that same functionality on the iPad. Be it my entire DropBox, or just a portion of the DropBox. If I could use the same external drive even, that would be ideal.
Hope this has added some clarity, I appreciate my OP was a touch vague.
