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Problem

I am looking to close our dropbox business account. To do this, I first need to save the account contents account to our NAS.

When I attempt to move my dropbox folder to the network location, I get the following.

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This is because...

Dropbox doesn't support network locations due to issues that have come up before.1

Attempted solutions

Dropbox.com

The web version of dropbox has a download limit that is significantly smaller than the data we have in Dropbox. I just get an error when I try to download all files.

subst

I have tried subst, but cannot see how to make a drive that appears as a local drive, I have only been able to make another network drive.

Visual Subst

Make mapped network drive appear as local drive suggests Visual Subst, however, this is a paid product that provides no assurance it will actually work if I part with my $20. Besides, I am more than happy with a good old CLI.

NAS Client

QNAP provides HBS 3 and HybridMount2 which can connect to Dropbox. After having left HybridMount for 12 hours it has downloaded almost nothing, so I am guessing that it only downloads what you are actually using, rather than everything. I have also looked into HBS 3 but again, cannot see a way to force it to just download all of Dropbox.

Art. 20 of the GDPR: Right to data portability

I have submitted a GDPR request to Dropbox for them to provide the data in a zip archive. It remains to be seen if they will comply.

Constraints

  • I am the Dropbox account admin.
  • Dropbox account is on the "Teams Advanced" plan.
  • Total size of dropbox account data ≈6TB
  • I have been an IT guy for many years, so, I am the System Administrator. My voice is my passport.
  • Our broadband connection provides 910mb/s down and 110mb/s up.
  • NAS is a QNAP TS-453 Pro running firmware version 5.0.0.1932
  • NAS has 24TB of capacity available.
  • My laptop has 500GB of capacity and runs Windows 10.
  • I also have Ubuntu & Mac machines that do not have Dropbox currently installed but are available if helpful.
  1. dropboxforum.com. (2015). Sync with a network drive. [online] Available at: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-installs-integrations/Sync-with-a-network-drive/td-p/99283 [Accessed 9 Feb. 2022].
  2. www.qnap.com. (n.d.). QNAP Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Dropbox Support Facilitate Effortless File Sharing and Collaboration | QNAP. [online] Available at: https://www.qnap.com/static/landing/2019/hybrid-cloud-news/dropbox/en/index.html [Accessed 9 Feb. 2022].

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You could try creating an NTFS junction? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/junction

The network drive probably has to be mapped to a drive letter (but I assume you already have this).

I've used this to move temp installer dirs from cluttery programs to different drives, seems to fool all of them so far.

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According to QNAP support (via email),

you would need to use HBS3 then select "active sync" to pull the data onto the NAS.

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