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How can I back up my Documents folder when it's on another drive?
My Dropbox Plan Provides 2TB In Cloud; and my C Drive has 330GB of space free and is drive where folder C:\Users\Gary\Dropbox to add items to Dropbox in cloud exists.
I want to be able to b...
Hey Drop ball, indeed, the "online-only" feature allows you to free up space on your hard drive, by turning your files into placeholders, so that they take no physical space.
When a file is set to "online-only", it will appear in your Dropbox folder, but it can only be opened if the computer is connected to the internet.
You can see more about the feature here, but let me know if you have more questions.
Thankyou Hannah. That has solved my issue ... I can create a My Documents folder within Dropbox and then add the subfolders of My original My Documents folder to it little by little; but after done mark them as 'online only'.
Can u tell me how goes Dropbox with uploading large folders ? ... say about 90GB. This is the largest folder within My Documents and my largest file within same is 18GB. Total size of My Documents is 383GB. Am interested any issues with large uploads and do they fail/stall sometimes, if so why ? My upload speed is about 24MB/sec and download is about 55MB/sec. So will take hours. That is OK.
Also am thinking of going to the Dropbox Family plan and does it have a maximum file size limit for uploads-downloads ?
Will mark as solution once have more info. Thx Drop ball.🎱
Megan
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Dropbox Community ModeratorHey Drop ball!
The Family plan provides 2 TB of storage space that can be shared by up to 6 family members.
The speed and quantity of uploads depends on the platform you're using. You can see all of our upload limits in this article.
Keep in mind that your internet provider and connection also play an important role here, since Dropbox can only upload and download as fast as your Internet service provider (ISP) allows. Larger files usually take longer to sync.
In case you're using our desktop app, I'd suggest you tweak the bandwidth limit to "Don't Limit" to allow Dropbox to use as much bandwidth as possible.
