Need to see if your shared folder is taking up space on your dropbox 👨💻? Find out how to check here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
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.
I'm going to try using my backup laptop as a workaround but I would like to selectively sync the files I use regularly to my computer's internal drive and maintain a complete local backup of dropbox on an external drive. That should be possible.
- Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Hey nvelis, thanks for the nudge.
When using the Dropbox app on your internal drive, you can definitely use selective sync to only sync the folders you want to access regularly and save hard drive space.
However, if you want a complete local backup of your Dropbox folder on an external drive, you can only do that manually.
You can see a clarification on how the Dropbox app works in Neal's reply here.
