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.

PaulF7619's avatar
PaulF7619
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
Status:
Closed

Store offline files on SD card on Android devices

I have an ASUS ZenPad 8 running Android 6.0 and right now I'm running Dropbox on the internal memory.  This works great but I'm using up ~4.5Gb of internal storage.  I'd like to run Dropbox on my 128...
Android
Desktop
Mobile
Space and storage
Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
7 years ago

There is no feature in Dropbox that allows that on mobile devices. You can export files to the SD card, but Dropbox will always use internal storage.

There may be some third-party apps that will accomplish it for you, but they're not supported by Dropbox.

  • choeurbaobab's avatar
    choeurbaobab
    Explorer | Level 3
    6 years ago

    This is definitely _not_a_solution_ and should _not_ be displayed as such.
    Is there a way we could place a feature request and vote for it ?

    thanks !

    • PaulF7619's avatar
      PaulF7619
      Helpful | Level 6
      6 years ago
      Good suggestion. How do we make this happen? All you folks who run Dropbox on a phone or a tablet and want to run it on a SD chip should sound off.
  • PaulF7619's avatar
    PaulF7619
    Helpful | Level 6
    7 years ago

    Thanks for the reply.  It's a bummer since, with my desktop, I was able to set the location of Dropbox as my D: drive and everything moved over.  Maybe one day!