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Butl Nor
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9 months ago

Will Dropbox ever allow syncing arbitrary directories?

I have been a long time free user of Dropbox. The free plan was enough for an occasional share. But I have a huge photo archive as a photographer, and I also scanned all the family photos and digiti...
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Mark
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9 months ago
Butl Nor wrote:

will Dropbox ever support this? I am really considering to become a paying user, but without this, it's useless.

Nobody will know until it happens.

However, my personal opinion is no - at least not in the short to medium term. 

Dropbox initially allowed it for backup when it was in beta but removed it (assumingly as it was too unreliable). Given they removed it from a feature I cannot see it coming in to another. 

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