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stevenriz
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

Is there an option to use Dropbox as a mounted cloud drive?

Hih looking to see if Dropbox has a "drive" option where if you are connected to the internet, you can see your data through a folder on your file manager. When you disconnect, it goes away. Much lik...
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    Rich
    7 years ago
    stevenriz wrote:

    I do not want to sync anything, yet I do not want to use GUI to access my data. I'd like a mapped folder or drive to my data however. This will help keep our data organized.

    Dropbox does not have the functionality you want. Its intended purpose is not cloud storage in the sense that you have a mapped folder or drive. It's a synchronization tool first and foremost.

     

    That being said, Dropbox Professional and Business both have the Smart Sync feature which allows you to set the Dropbox folder and it's content to be Online-only but still appear on your local drive. Any file you open is downloaded and set Local and then opened like any other file. This still requires that you have the Dropbox client installed on your computer, and will still sync files that are set to Local.

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Rich
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stevenriz wrote:

I do not want to sync anything, yet I do not want to use GUI to access my data. I'd like a mapped folder or drive to my data however. This will help keep our data organized.

Dropbox does not have the functionality you want. Its intended purpose is not cloud storage in the sense that you have a mapped folder or drive. It's a synchronization tool first and foremost.

 

That being said, Dropbox Professional and Business both have the Smart Sync feature which allows you to set the Dropbox folder and it's content to be Online-only but still appear on your local drive. Any file you open is downloaded and set Local and then opened like any other file. This still requires that you have the Dropbox client installed on your computer, and will still sync files that are set to Local.

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stevenriz
Helpful | Level 5
7 years ago

That explains everything Thank you for the help Rich and all!

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