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Tommy Q.'s avatar
Tommy Q.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Sync with a network drive

Hi, I have an external drive connected to my router which appears in the network as \10.50.1.1\Name How do I sync my dropbox file to a location there? when I try to move the directory over there...
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  • Richard P.'s avatar
    Richard P.
    10 years ago

    Dropbox doesn't support network locations due to issues that have come up before.

Bryan H.5's avatar
Bryan H.5
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Fully appreciate the idea behind Dropbox, but when there is TB's of storage available in the plans how many people would actually have a machine with that amount of local storage.  In this day and age where Home NAS solutions are becoming more and more prevalent surely it is pertinent to scope the solution provided to meet new configuration and demand?  I for example have a 3TB NAS at home where I keep my personal files, and photos that I would prefer to backup to cloud as well as sync back to from Dropbox from my phone without being restricted to my local laptop's limitiations

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