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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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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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Why does synchronizing 1.4 TB of data with my Dropbox account result in over 28 TB of IO read?
I tried to sync 4.4 millions of files (totaling ~1.4 TB) with my Dropbox account. I noticed a pretty high amount of IO read (28 TB) when the files were being synchronized, is there any reason why?
My ...
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Briefly hibernate PC during Dropbox Sync
I'm in the middle of moving a large number of files to Dropbox from my PC laptop (running Windows 7). I'm wondering if it's safe to temporarily put my PC to hibernate while I go home, and then set it ...
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Permissions to allow Dropbox access but prevent Anti-virus access
My computer has some anti-virus software installed that runs constantly and checks for what it believes are malicious executables. I cannot disable or control the anti-virus software.
I have dropbox ...
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How to set dropbox based syncable reminders?
I'm trying to look for a way to set reminders between my homepc and work pc. And I need it something like this:
I put a text file in dropbox on homepc, and let it get uploaded to dropbox (synced)
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How does Dropbox work in Windows?
When a file is dropped into Dropbox's sync folder, is that file actually still stored locally on my hard drive, or is it some type of hologram?
I keep a number of ebooks synched across devices with ...
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whole volume private Dropbox with Windows 7 [closed]
I want to setup full volume file mirroring from a client computer to a server computer.
In my imagination the end result is something slightly comparable to both RAID1 and dropbox.
I have listed a ...
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Fast way to migrate dropbox
I have Dropbox installed on my laptop and my old desktop with 15.6 GB of data. Typically when I reinstall the operating system on either machine I would leave the other one on so it would sync over ...
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Eclipse, workspaces, DropBox and source control
Eclipse has an idea I've always been kinda uncomfortable with - the idea of the workspace.
The workspace is that folder you store ALL your projects in. You cannot store projects outside the workspace....
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Keep Dropbox folder location common in Windows and in Ubuntu
What I'm trying to do is pretty tricky that Dropbox client is not allowing me to do.
I have dual-boot computer with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10, now, my dropbox account (with 4 GB of space) has 500 MB ...
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Is having a Firefox profile in the Dropbox a good combination?
I was pretty excited to see sites as Lifehacker and such say how Dropbox can also do synchronisation for Firefox for us. It would also allow me to sync extensions and configuration settings.
After ...
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Dropbox sync across LAN - Windows 7 and Ubuntu
I've got Dropbox installed on both my Windows 7 machine and my Ubuntu machine. I've got "Enable LAN sync" ticked on both.
However it doesn't seem to be syncing via the LAN. Is it possible to sync ...
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