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How to stop dropbox filling OS drive when the dropbox folder is on a secondary hard drive?
I have dropbox business, and am trying to create a local archive of a 4 TB dropbox folder. I have my dropbox folder location on my D:\ drive, with a 6 tb drive. My OS drive is a 240 GB SSD. However, ...
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Syncing folders/files on two computers w/Google Drive
I currently use Dropbox to sync some folders on two different machines. The two machines have symbolic links to the same folder inside my Dropbox folder, and it works great. Is anything like this ...
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How to see and access unsynced folders in Cloud storage service?
I have very little disk space. I'd like to store rarely used files in the cloud and not on my own computer but still have access to them. I want only a few folders on my hard drive and the rest should ...
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How does Dropbox handle syncing a new computer with an existing folder with differences?
So let's assume I have a new PC. Also assume that I have an external hard drive that has a copy of all of the files in my Dropbox, but it is somewhat out of date (e.g. some files aren't there, some ...
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Syncing with Box for multiple users on one desktop computer
My desktop computer runs on Windows 7, with a different account for each family member. I have had no trouble running dropbox from each computer account. Each computer account syncs automatically ...
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How do I change the Dropbox (for Business) location on a headless Linux server
Im trying to adjust the path Dropbox syncs to on a headless installation. I use a Synology, so there`s no way to connect a monitor.
By default Dropbox syncs all data in /root/Dropbox (Company_name). ...
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Sync pictures taken to dropbox
I am using dropbox sync to sync of my phone pictures to the cloud (dropbox). Works like a charm. Only thing is that also want to sync the pictures I take to my dropbox folder.
Both the pictures I ...
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How to sync large directory (30gb) between Android and OSX devices?
So, my laptop is a Mac, and my phone is an Android. I want to sync my music directory between the two. The sync can either be multi-directional, or in a single direction from computer to phone.
I ...
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Syncing selected folder between two cloud services using Synology NAS
I am using Cloud Sync on Synology NAS to sync (bidirectionally) files from/to public clouds, like Dropbox and Box.com.
A problem recently appears that I have to share some project with multiple ...
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Dropbox won't download all the files to my PC
I have a problem with my Dropbox account. I have about a thousand photographs/videos on my Dropbox account (online), and I have my account linked to my PC. However, it only downloads half of the ...
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How can I sync a network folder in Windows?
I have a network folder at work that I would like to be accessible from home. I have purchased some space in Yandex.Disk (basically just another Dropbox clone, so let's just imagine I'm using Dropbox) ...
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Firefox sync via dropbox
This is my problem:
Firefox sync is totaly unusable, mostly because of this: Bug 787500 and because it often syncs some bookmarks wrong. (I have noticed it restoring and dublicating the deleted ones ...
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Fix Dropbox sync remotely
I'm having intermittent trouble getting Dropbox to sync on a remote machine. I don't know what the cause is, but it will sync fine for months then stop. I'm trying to debug this over SSH on OSX (...
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Cloud storages (dropbox, sync, etc), how sync nested folders?
I am faced with the problem using cloud storages. I want keep my files in that way:
Project 1 Root > Design
Project 1 Root > Programming
Project 1 Root > bookkeeping
Project 2 Root > UI
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What happens if I point dropbox to existing but old folder?
Assume I have Dropbox installed on a computer A.
I make a backup of computer A disk.
I add/change/delete some files on A and sync.
Later I load the backup on another computer B, install (clean, no ...
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