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Alain Church's avatar
Alain Church
Collaborator | Level 8
5 months ago

I need Dropbox files redistributed between two drives, due to the lack of space.

Whatever is you subscription [mine 2Tb] you may think the [File System] in two way: [DISK] I have all my files on MY MAIN PC that are managed to Cloud + other BKP PCs by Dropbox. Only BKP PC get ...
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Rich's avatar
Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
5 months ago
Alain Church wrote:

I cant find a way to ask Dropbox:
To get and to Clouds the contents of DiskOne-Business + DiskTwo-Photos

That's not something that Dropbox can do. You can only have one Dropbox folder on your computer. It's not possible to have Dropbox sync to two different locations.

It does have the ability to back up multiple external drives, but this isn't the same as the sync process and is used purely for backups.

Alain Church's avatar
Alain Church
Collaborator | Level 8
4 months ago

This is NOT a Solution... !!!
I cannot accept that as an answer, that's just "stating" how this release is working.

Nothing that can solve the issue;

Even with a 2Tb disk...  And one single Dropbox Main Folder ...
that solve nothing.

What is need is two Dropbox instances running side by side of two different Main Folders. 

First  > will manage Dropbox1 Main folder on Disk1 
Second > manage  Dropbox2 Main Folder on Disk2


If you dont tell them ...
.... the Dev people will never realize how simple is to implement that!!!

Note: all browsers do exactly that 🤷

( forcing solution down to the throat of Customers .. has never been acceptable )



  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    4 months ago
    Alain Church wrote:

    What is need is two Dropbox instances running side by side of two different Main Folders.

    That feature does not exist. Dropbox can only sync a single Dropbox folder.

    If this is something you wish to see changed, I'd suggest that you create a new post in the Ideas section of the Community, or upvote an existing idea if one already exists.

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    4 months ago

    Hey Alain Church, I just sent you an email, so we can continue investigating your issue internally.

    Thanks.

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