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How can I sync a specific folder to my Dropbox account?
I don't know if I'm missing something in plain sight, but what I want to do is select a folder on my Mac to sync onto Dropbox. What I don't want, is to selective sync that folder and then not see the other items that were in my Dropbox folder previously. I found on the web how to go that route which isn't really what I'm looking for. I feel like this should be a right-click, sync folder to Dropbox kind of deal and that isn't the case 🙂
myusko89 wrote:
... what I want to do is select a folder on my Mac to sync onto Dropbox. ... I feel like this should be a right-click, sync folder to Dropbox ...
That's not how Dropbox works. If you want something to sync to your Dropbox account online, it must reside within the Dropbox folder on your computer. Move a folder into the Dropbox folder and Dropbox will sync it. Dropbox cannot sync files or folders located elsewhere on your computer.
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- Rich
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myusko89 wrote:
... what I want to do is select a folder on my Mac to sync onto Dropbox. ... I feel like this should be a right-click, sync folder to Dropbox ...
That's not how Dropbox works. If you want something to sync to your Dropbox account online, it must reside within the Dropbox folder on your computer. Move a folder into the Dropbox folder and Dropbox will sync it. Dropbox cannot sync files or folders located elsewhere on your computer.
Ah okay, fair enough @Rich. Thank you. What I'm trying to do is I have a digital photo frame that connects to a couple cloud sources, one being Google Drive, but not Dropbox unfortunately. I'm trying to sync a folder that lives within Dropbox to Google Drive, but struggling to do so. Do you happen to have any experience on that? It's telling me that it can't upload (on the Google side) because there are configuration files which can't be uploaded.
Got it. Definitely not ideal, just trying to streamline the steps I need to take when trying to get pictures to this frame. I wish Dropbox linked with Aura! Or maybe the other way around 🙂
@zubairx - can you expand further on that? Where would that file be? Within my folder I'm working? Is it something hidden?
