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PaulF7619
Helpful | Level 6
7 years ago
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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
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Rich
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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.

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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 !

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    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.