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Loading FIles To DropBox Faster
I'm new to the 3TB plan on DropBox and I'm trying to copy my photos from my C: drive to DropBox.
If I do a Windows Explorer copy, the files default to Available Offline and my hard drive fills before I can complete the copy.
If I go into the DropBox App under preferences & Sync, I can set the default to Online Only, however ths forces me to use the Dropbox.com website to upload the files and this method is painfully slow. I currently have 79,000+ photos and DropBox is telling me it will take a month to copy my photos over.
Maybe you can have an option to manually upload files where they are on-line only so you can actually get everything setup more quickly. I'm currently on a 30-day trial and it will take 30-days just to get my photos loaded. There needs to be a faster way.
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Thanks Mark:
I wish that was the case. I have high-speed internet connections at home and work and it's still slow loading to DropBox. Copying the same files to a different cloud storage providor (or two) is much faster.
When you say the faster way is the desktop app do you mean a) dropbox.com in a web browser, b) Windows File Explorer or is there some way to copy files using the App itself on Windows??
