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Can you work with files in a Dropbox folder when Dropbox isn't running?
I'm working on a large video project that involves some shared Dropbox folders. Because the folders are too big to fit on my internal hard drive, I created a separate user account on my Mac and ...
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Multiple file server syncing
Here is my setup :
Office 1 : 20 users a dropbox sharing between all
Office 2 : 9 users, sharing the same dropbox to share the files
My problem : Office 2 is in remote place and gets only a 4G ...
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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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How can I stop Drobox sync during the day and automatically start at night
I'm trying to stop the Dropbox daemon from running during the day.
I'd like to start it and perform a sync around 6 pm daily.
I'm running Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10 on an iMac 27'.
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Unable to uninstall dropbox in a roaming profile or to delete data from an existing dropbox
For several years i had a running dropbox installation pointing to a home directory on a network drive associated with my roaming profile in a windows 2012 environment.
Some days ago, i realized that ...
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Practical way to share 15GB of files with distributed users on cable connections
I am working with a company of 7 employees distributed throughout the U.S., each with basic cable internet connections, who need to share about 15 GB of thousands of documents (mostly Word and PDF ...
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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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Store in server only changed files and delete them after synchronisation
I have two laptops (maybe one more on its way) running Ubuntu and I wish to keep certain directories synchronized.
I've considered DropBox and I'm not happy about a couple of points:
All my sensible ...
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Synced dropbox files on corrupt profile (Windows 7) [duplicate]
I recently encountered an error that my Windows 7 user profile was corrupt. After unsuccessfully trying many fixes I conceded to start a new profile afresh. After doing so (and thinking that I fully ...
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Dropbox offline on USB
I have a Dropbox account and I use it to share files among a few PCs.
Now I need to use these files on a PC where Dropbox is blocked. I'm thinking on moving these files to a USB and use them there. ...
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Copied files manually. Dropbox wants to re-upload them all
I'm reinstalling Windows on a new hard drive, and copying everything across from the old one. I have something like 100GB of photos synced to Dropbox, but it seemed silly to download them all off the ...
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Can I arrange that other computers only see certain dropbox folders? [closed]
I am using Dropbox. I paid for the PRO version and have 1 TB of storage. I want to store most of my files in Dropbox so I can get them backed up. Most of the files are private files (such as vacation ...
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How to point Dropbox app to the existing Dropbox location?
I have reinstalled Dropbox. Now it wants to start downloading all my files in my userprofile/dropbox. But there's already a completely downloaded Dropbox folder in E:/Dropbox/. I've been trying to ...
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How to list remote files and folders in the Google Drive or Dropbox folder, without having the files stored locally?
Dropbox and Google Drive are two great sync products but they always sync everything effectively crowding your hard drive really quickly. And I'm not referring to the default setting of syncing all ...
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Sync SFTP server with DropBox
I'm using Windows. I have a folder on a server that I can access via SFTP. I want to keep it in sync with a folder on Dropbox. Is there an easy way to do this?
When a file is moved to Dropbox, I also ...
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