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Dropbox sync with multiple drives/folders for a single account.
Hello,
What I'm looking for is a way for Dropbox sync to manage multiple drives in a single account. (i.e. with a portable SSD in addition to my laptop's internal SSD as well)
In my use case, I w...
Hi JordanR,
No worries at all, let me explain:
- Dropbox’s desktop app supports only a single watched folder per installation—typically on your internal drive. You can't configure it to monitor and sync two different local directories (e.g. both your internal SSD and a portable SSD) directly.
- You can choose which folders sync on each device using Selective Sync, but that's not what you’re after here. That controls which parts of your Dropbox cloud data appear on each device, not where Dropbox actively syncs from your local system.
I hope this clears things up.
segment of the community who are expressing a need for this kind of functionality
Well, I want this functionality too. Sync 2 or more folders in a single device. It's for backup reasons. I want to backup password manager database to fist sync in my user folder inside Windows and the other in a flash drive syncing the same database file(This is needed if I lose access to my OS, dropbox and smartphone, I would still have a copy in a usb stick. Losing access to all might sound weird, but very possible). I managed to achieve the desired outcome using pcloud, but for my other files that shouldn't live in the same cloud account.
