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Dropbox folder on external drive
Hi, my disk on my computer is 500 gb, so I have an external ssd which is 2 tb. I would like to sync it with dropbox. Is it possible?
Thank you.
It’s a shame there is no solution for people who are upgrading their Macs and moving their work to external thunderbolt SSDs.
I’d be happy to have Dropbox on the internal drive and download files I’m working on as and when I need them, as long as I can also backup the entire Dropbox folder automatically onto an external local hard drive. The important thing for me is to have a up-to-date copy of everything locally and a backup in the cloud. I can’t risk having all my data only in one basket behind a paywall.
It’s looking like I need to find another option because Dropbox doesn’t support my use case on new hardware.
I think I have a solution...
With all my files on dropbox currently sitting on my external SSD, I'll move most of them out of the dropbox folder onto the same SSD. Then I'll unlink the dropbox folder, delete it from the SSD, and set up the updated and smaller dropbox folder onto the internal drive.
Then I'll set the SSD to be backed up to dropbox.
So for business continuity / disaster recovery purposes, there is a copy of everything backed up to the dropbox cloud. I can work off the external 2 TB SSD. When I'm out of town and need to work using my 2010 MacBook Pro laptop (which needs to be replaced), I can move the relevant files into the Dropbox folder.
This may actually be a better solution overall, and I can still back up everything to the 8 TB HDD using Time Machine.
