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nupa's avatar
nupa
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

How to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC?

Currently it is impossible to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC. They appear to contain the same files with the same metadata, but Dropbox for Linux refuses to ...
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ClarineterX's avatar
ClarineterX
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

Like, excuse me, what? This is extremely disappointing. I just spent the past hour talking to ChatGPT and Claude, trying to work around this with symbolic links and such...with no success.

Why can't we do this?! Please make it possible, post-haste!

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