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Ashvin B.
10 years agoNew member | Level 2
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Sync dropbox across multiple locations/hard drives
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...
Zach Hiebert
11 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Dropbox desktop is an excellent app as it allows me to automatically back my files up to the cloud as a videographer. This means a lot to me because my file structures are constantly changing such as auto saves and bringing in new footage into a project folder. This would be very tedious to back up manually. This is why I use the dropbox desktop app for my internal Drive on my laptop. However I would love to have the dropbox desktop app for my external hard drive as well as when I’m done with projects I like to put them away so they don’t take up space on my laptop internal hard drive. I understand that if I’m done with a project on my internal laptop drive on the dropbox desktop app I can just make it so it’s available online only. The problem with this is that if I need to access an old project to bring it up for something again like a show real or a social media post I have to re-download everything and this is tedious. This is why I want to have an external drive to back everything up but I still want to back up to Dropbox, because having it on the cloud is the safest way to ensure against drive failure. This brings me to my main issue. I understand that in the dropbox desktop app, I am able to change the location of it so I could change it to my external drive, but if I did that, then it would no longer be on my internal drive as well. And I like to edit current projects on my internal laptop, and back up projects on my external drive. The dropbox desktop app does not currently allow it being located in Two different drives at once. I personally think this would be an innovative game changer for people working with back up projects to have an option to have the dropbox desktop app be available for two different locations. I’m not sure how you would work out making sure they are distinct from each other but perhaps you could develop a system where it says dropbox one and dropbox two. But the reason why this is so important is instead of using Dropbox to back up my external hard drive. I’m forced to go to another service like Google Drive for my external hard drive, and keep Dropbox on my internal drive because you guys don’t provide me the options for both. So I think it would help Dropbox standout from other cloud services if they provided this.
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