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pasteve99
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2 years ago
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Continuous sync to an external drive

I have looked online, within this community, and asked several friends, but I cannot seem to find the correct answer. My DROPBOX files are all online. My Dropbox folder on my computer is under c:\u...
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    Rich
    2 years ago
    pasteve99 wrote:

    I would like to set up a schedule where DROPBOX, or an add-on program, will look at my online DROPBOX files and keep them in sync with a folder I create on an external drive ...

    Dropbox doesn't do that. It can backup your external drive to your Dropbox account, but it doesn't work the other way.

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Rich
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2 years ago
pasteve99 wrote:

I would like to set up a schedule where DROPBOX, or an add-on program, will look at my online DROPBOX files and keep them in sync with a folder I create on an external drive ...

Dropbox doesn't do that. It can backup your external drive to your Dropbox account, but it doesn't work the other way.

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