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Can you save certain folders in different locations across multiple hard drives?
I have two internal hard drives. A 2TB C: drive and a 4TB D: drive. I would love the simple ability to have some of my dropbox folders on the 2TB drive and other folders on the 4TB drive. This would be helpful just organizationally, but also would be a way where when I run out/low on space on the 2TB, I can just start adding files to the 4TB and all of it is still synched with dropbox.
As far as I'm aware dropbox doesn't allow you to place some folders on one drive and some folders on another drive and have them all synch. I thought maybe I could solve this by having two dropbox accounts, one that would be downloaded on the 2TB drive and one on the 4TB drive, but I don't believe you can have two instances of dropbox on one machine.
So currently the only solution I'm aware of is for me to do Dropbox on the 2TB and a Google Drive for Desktop on the 4TB. If you could solve this for me, I'd happily pay for more dropbox storage and ditch my Google Drive subscription since I prefer Dropbox.
4 Replies
- Jay
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hi RyanScammell, thanks for contacting us.
While it isn't possible to split your Dropbox folder across two separate drives or locations, there is a workaround using normal Dropbox features to do this.
It could be possible to use a different computer profile on your machine and sign into the same Dropbox account. During the set up of your account, you can choose another location for the Dropbox folder, such as the D: drive, and use selective sync to only allow certain folders to sync to that folder.
On your original computer profile, you could use selective sync to deselect the folders you don't want to appear on your C: drive.
Bear in mind that files will only sync while the computer profile is logged in, and any new folders created in the root of your Dropbox folder would sync automatically to both profiles. While this isn't an official method, it can be used if it is necessary for your requirements.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
I don't think the multiple profiles thing is the solve. I don't want to be jockeying between log-ins just to save files on a different drive.
- Jay
Thanks for the reply, I'll leave this thread open for other users to comment their suggestions on this matter.
I also would like the ability to sync to multiple locations/drives. Some large files would be better off on an external drive.
I'm sure there are many technical hurdles, but if software can detect cancer, maybe it can do this, too? ;)
