You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Sync 2 Folders in separte locations
Personal Plus I have a Mac with 512 GB space. While the SSD is helpful for editing and such, I need to free up some space but I still need my files to be available in dropbox. I want to move m...
PG84 wrote:
I want to move my project folders that are within that Dropbox folder to an external disk. ... Is this allowed?
No. Previously you could move your entire Dropbox folder to an external drive (though NOT recommended), but with the new update for macOS and Apple's new requirement for storage providers using their File Provider API, Dropbox on macOS will no longer support storing the Dropbox folder on an external drive at all.
What you are saying is my dropbox sync folder will be limited by the storage space in my laptop?
Rich
Super User II
Super User II
PG84 wrote:
What you are saying is my dropbox sync folder will be limited by the storage space in my laptop?
Not necessarily. When the update occurs, all files are marked as Online-only so they appear on your computer but don't actually take up any space. You can then mark files as Available Offline so they are downloaded to your local drive and available at all times. This means you can have much more storage in your Dropbox than you would normally be able to fit on your drive.
If you want ALL of your files marked as Available Offline, then yes, you would be limited by the storage space on your laptop.
Interesting. Thank you for the input.
Indeed, I need to have files locally stored as well.
This means I can only store my "not frequent" accesed files stored as part of a external storage backup and cannot access the files from the dropbox app.
I had only just strted using dropbox as a way of freeing up laptop space and having cloud storage easily sync and accesible. If this is not possible (and it is not as you mentioned) unfortunately this would be a reason for me to migrate to another cloud storage provider.
Thank you for the insight.
