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The app is filling up my system drive, but not uploading to Dropbox
Help please. Long time drag and drop Dropbox user without the app, but finding it grindingly slow and now constantly crashing.
I installed the app, but deliberately without syncing. I need a ...
Hi Barney D.
You seem to be a tad confused as to how Dropbox works I'm afraid.
Dropbox is just a regular folder on your machine like every single other one - meaning it uses space and is managed/controlled by your OS. The only difference is that the Dropbox program than syncs that folder to the cloud. There is no way (via the software), or ever has been actually, to upload directly to Dropbox on a computer without using quota. The ONLY way would be to upload via the website.
Mark
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Super User IIHi Barney D.
You seem to be a tad confused as to how Dropbox works I'm afraid.
Dropbox is just a regular folder on your machine like every single other one - meaning it uses space and is managed/controlled by your OS. The only difference is that the Dropbox program than syncs that folder to the cloud. There is no way (via the software), or ever has been actually, to upload directly to Dropbox on a computer without using quota. The ONLY way would be to upload via the website.
Thank you. I'll stick to drag and drop and pray.
Having said even the drag and drop is missing a substantial number of files.
- Mark
Have you given drag/drop time to move (THAT bit is done by the computer itself) and then to upload? The upload takes time and is dependent upon your internet speed.
It's not that it is missing files at the end of the batch; it's missing random files right through the batch.
Down 30 Mbps, up 5 Mbps.
