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Backing up from Dropbox (online) straight to external drive
I have all my work saved on my Dropbox account, and generally only have around 20% of that stored locally at any one time.
I'd like to buy a large external drive and back everything up onto that for ...
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Dropbox writing to external drive very slowly
I have an external HDD which I wanted to utilize as Dropbox backup. It's connected to a secondary idle PC via USB. I've installed Dropbox and set its location at the external drive hoping it would ...
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Does putting Dropbox folder on an exFAT formatted external drive make it portable between Mac and PC?
If I use an exFAT formatted external drive to house my Dropbox folder, will the folder become portable between a Mac and a PC? In other words, if I move the external hard drive between my Mac and PC, ...
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Using a cloud service simultaneously with both an internal and external drive?
Here's my scenario: I have an internal drive on my laptop (which I take with me) and an external drive that stays in one place.
I use Dropbox for cloud storage. The external hard drive holds huge ...
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Sync Dropbox to External hard drive, unlinking, etc
My laptop is jam packed full in terms of storage (it is quite old and has limited storage anyway) and I have just got some external hard drives to free up some space.
Approx. 30GB of this is ...
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Dropbox - soft link from external hard drive doesn't get recognized by Dropbox on OS X
I store some super large compilation of files on my external hard drive because there isn't enough space on my Macbook Pro. I would like to have them in my Dropbox as well. In this question Uploading ...
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Uploading large folders to Dropbox from external hard drive
I've got a puzzling dilemma that I've been trying to solve for weeks. I want to backup about 500 GBs from an external hard drive to my Dropbox Pro account.
My computer's hard drive is nowhere near ...
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What files can be removed when using dropbox on an external hard drive?
I read on https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/89 :
If the external drive is disconnected from the computer while Dropbox is running, there's a small chance that the application will start deleting ...
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Portable Dropbox/Google Drive
I am planning to buy a new external harddisk, which will hold my project files using XAMPP Portable, my contacts, documents etc, as this thing is dealing with sensitive data, and I cannot rely on a ...
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Keep connection to external HDD alive on Mac OSX
Currently I have an external hdd connected to my Mac Mini and (as a temporary measure) we are backing this up to Dropbox using a Symbolic Link. This works fine but the main problem is when the ...
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