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Switching from One Drive to Dropbox
Hello everyone,
Onedrive is slowly but surely driving me crazy. The main problem I'm having with it is that you can't exclude folders from the root folder for documents. As many of you know, exclud...
Mark
Super User II
Super User II
derpsn wrote:
I hope I got it right, but it seems that Dropbox is able to have the same feature set as Onedrive with syncing my documents, pictures and so on, but with the advantage that I can exclude certain folders without losing them locally.
Hi
Unfortunately not. Dropbox only sync's what is inside the \Dropbox directory. So it wont sync My Documents etc. unless you physically relocate those directories in to the Dropbox folder (which is what I always did when I had a windows device)
But I have seen that the desktop app is able to add my external document folder.
So not by default, but I can add it, right?
- Mark
derpsn wrote:
But I have seen that the desktop app is able to add my external document folder.
So not by default, but I can add it, right?
That is Dropbox backup which does not sync, but instead backup. They did beta test it outside of Backup but stopped it.
Dropbox syncing (as in what you are used to with OneDrive) can only sync what is inside the \Dropbox directory.
All right. That's a real bummer.
So I won't have any benefits here 😞
