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Melonklyftan
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3 years ago
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Can I move a single file to an external drive?

Hello!   I use Dropbox as storage for work. This means there are pretty big files stored on there. To save space on my pc I keep them available online until I need to use a certain file. I have a...
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    Rich
    3 years ago
    Melonklyftan wrote:

    I have a file that is bigger than what my local drive have memory left for. I would like to make that file available offline, but have it downloading to an external drive, instead of my local disc.

    That's not possible. You can move your entire Dropbox folder to the external drive (which is NOT recommended), but you can't specify a single file to sync to a different location from everything else.

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Rich
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3 years ago
Melonklyftan wrote:

I have a file that is bigger than what my local drive have memory left for. I would like to make that file available offline, but have it downloading to an external drive, instead of my local disc.

That's not possible. You can move your entire Dropbox folder to the external drive (which is NOT recommended), but you can't specify a single file to sync to a different location from everything else.

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