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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.

Reza G.1's avatar
Reza G.1
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

I'm in the same boat at Bryan H.

I understand that the network protocols have limitations but why not add a simple ability to sync manually. I have a QNAP NAS with 7TB storage and like to sync some important files to Dropbox. There are apps for this in QNAP but they are far from reliable and fail during big file transfers. Heck i can even run a VM and run windows on the NAS for syncing with dropbox but i need some reliable app to allow me to sync my files from NAS to Dropbox.

I'm sure if we can put a man on a moon this can be solved as well if Dropbox really wanted to.

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