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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 want to maintain my local (internal) drive as the main Dropbox location that'll sync continually (essentially every day), but I'd like to use a portable SSD as an additional backup, which will periodically be connected to the computer to sync with Dropbox.
Also, should such a function get made, is it possible to do this without pushing all the files from the cloud to the hard drive and be able to directly copy them over to the external SSD (at least for the initial synchronization)?
Thank you,
Jordan
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.
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- Dell_Dropbox
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I've seen this Idea come up on occasion, but unfortunately it hasn't been able to get enough support from the community to push it into the next stage of consideration.
Until then, the Dropbox backups feature will be the best available option (acknowledging this isn't as great as a physical external hard drive).
