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I have a larger dropbox account than my primary hard drive. It would be great if dropbox could support virtual links to files outside of it's default location, without those files having to also be i...
There are problem if the dropbox folder is placed in different volume from user folders like My documents and you want to use automatic backup of user folders.
I suggest adding the ability to Dropbox Desktop Client to work with folders located on multiple Windows drives (C:,D:,etc)
Hey.
I would like to suggest that you make this feature of 'Backups' further available for clients who do not have there dropbox folder on the internal harddrive of your macbook but use an external harddrive as your dropbox folder.
As surely I am not the only user to use an external harddrive as there dropbox folder instead of having it on the internal harddrive as some of the internal harddrives are not big enough to for the dropbox plan i am on or require. but...
it would still be nice to backups>This Mac feature availble to me.
As you can see from below because my dropbox and folder are on different drives it does not allow me to set this feature up, I believe many of your clients will be in the same situation as me and would like to use this feature but aren't allowed.
Please could you look at updating this feature? Thanks.
I totally agree with this idea! The description can be a bit more clear. I've rewritten the requirements in 3 requirement: 1A, 1B and 2.
1A- Feature "computer backup" should be available also when the dropbox-folder is fysically located on another drive than the main drive of the Operating System (so not only on C: but also on another internal drive or external drive)
1B- Feature "computer backup" should be available also when the computerfolders (Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, Desktop, Music) are fysically located on another drive than the main drive of the Operating System (so not only on C: but also on another internal drive or external drive)*** Requirement 1A and 1B are a "must-have". Most users will be satisfied when this is available. Next step would be the following "should-have" requirement:
2- Feature "computer backup" should be available when the computerfolders (Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Videos, Desktop, Music) are fysically located on another drive than the drive where the Dropbox-folder is fysically stored.I'm sort of flummoxed why this isn't already an option. I have a smaller drive that I run my OS on and a larger drive with Dropbox. I really don't want to be forced to buy a larger drive *just* to accommodate this feature when I already dish out $120/year. I've been using Dropbox for years and I've valued the flexibility it offers but if another product has more, I'm not opposed to making that switch.
I have a small SSD for my Windows 10 OS and program files and a larger INTERNAL RAID-10 drive array on which my Dropbox resides. I have a 2TB plan for Dropbox. DropBox will only backup files on the C drive. My Downloads and Documents folders are on my RAID-10 drive array, and I have no desire or space to move my Downloads folder to the C drive. I want to see DropBox backup allow backups for other drives within my system. It should not be limited only to the C drive.
There are plenty of other people with this issue, although I'd imagine I'm one of few who actually uses a RAID array.
Hi all,
I want to add my vote to Dream_User_H's very succinct summary of the way Dropbox works.
I am a long-time user of free Dropbox, and when I decided I needed to Share some of my larger Documents folders, I obviously turned to Dropbox first and started the free month of Dropbox Plus (2TB) plan.
I went through quite a few support personnel, who refused to acknowledge this as a Dropbox shortcoming until it escalated to one support specialist, who:
1) Understood the issue,
2) Pointed me to the "Share an Idea" forum and
3) Suggested (actually - requested) that I add my vote to this already long discussion (which I wish I had known about sooner and had read the correspondence).
So, Dropbox team, one more vote to implement Dream_User_H's summary of the pain expressed by all the contributors to this list.
Since this will not be solved before my 1 month trial is over, I already checked out some other solutions.
I will cancel my Dropbox Plus trial and will probably be going with Microsoft's Onedrive, even though I am no MS fan, but they have solved the problem.
There must obviously be a deep rooted problem here, probably engineered by Microsoft in the first place, that disallows Dropbox from backing up "Documents" unless it is on the C: drive.
I blame MS because they have very conveniently "solved" the problem by moving Documents into their Onedrive folder even if it is on (my) E: drive.
Unfortunately Dropbox will not accept the Documents folder when it is under Onedrive.
Dropbox team, PLEASE solve this so I and others can standardize on the Dropbox we love.
I 100% agree this would be a big benefit to users.
Other cloud services have this option, and I really like DropBox for it's intuitivity but this makes me consider other cloud platfroms.
Matt
