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DaveLeeNC
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago
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Dropbox on Internal, but not the OS, Drive

It is becoming quite common these days for new systems to come with a smallish SSD drive intended to host the OS and a separate (internal) drive for data. At https://help.dropbox.com/installs-integra...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    5 years ago

    Dropbox does play nicely with second internal drives... thats very badly worded that document. I always had my Dropbox folder on a separate D:\ drive when I used Windows. However, its right that it doesnt play nicely with external drives and that should be avoided. 

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Mark
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5 years ago

Dropbox does play nicely with second internal drives... thats very badly worded that document. I always had my Dropbox folder on a separate D:\ drive when I used Windows. However, its right that it doesnt play nicely with external drives and that should be avoided. 

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    DaveLeeNC
    Helpful | Level 7
    5 years ago

    Mark, thanks for the clearly stated explanation. dave 

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