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Evert_k's avatar
Evert_k
New member | Level 2
9 years ago
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Install dropbox program to different drive

Is there a way to choose your own installation location for the dropbox program? My OS drive will otherwise drown (seems like 60Gb is not enough for only windowss 7). Or do I need to switch to a diff...
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  • Sanchez's avatar
    Sanchez
    8 years ago
    Hey Jongcruz, welcome to our forum! 

    Our app is capable of moving your Dropbox folder to a new location, including a different physical drive. However, the file system on that drive must support extended attributes. Have a look here for more info.
     
    Cheers
     
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Sanchez
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9 years ago
Hey Evert_k, welcome to our forum! 

Mark is right. You can also move the Dropbox folder after it has been installed, by using our desktop app’s built-in tool. 

I can confirm your suspicion that a 60GB drive, realistically, is too small for Windows. I’m curious though, as to how moving to another cloud storage service will help. Are their desktop applications more light weight than ours?! 

If you don’t necessarily need our desktop app installed, you can just work with our web interface. That way, you can uninstall our app, and free up some drive space. 

If the Dropbox folder is the actual issue (and not the space used by our app’s installation files) moving it to another drive will do the trick. You can also use our Selective Sync feature to sync only folders you want to your computer, while having everything available online. 

I hope this helps. Let me know when you get the chance. 
Thanks :slight_smile:
 
nikkil's avatar
nikkil
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

I can't seem to find how to move this on the desktop app?  When I click on the dropbox icon, it only goes to the Windows File Explorer.  There are no "built-in tools"?  I can't have the files on my small SSD C drive.  They have to be in the 2 TB "E drive" so that is where dropbox needs to be and in response to the suggestions to this person - I'm not willing to be selective and the whole point of having the dropbox account for my needs to is backup every single file I own, immediately, not manually one file at a time to the website.  I'm not sharing a file with a co-worker, I'm saving my files in case the computer crashes.

    • nikkil's avatar
      nikkil
      New member | Level 2
      9 years ago
      Thank you! I never even thought to look there. It seems like if you click on a program, it should give you the options no matter where you go click on it.
      • Vyacheslav's avatar
        Vyacheslav
        New member | Level 2
        8 years ago
        Hi, i have the same issue. But disk space is not so important in my case. I suspect that if dropbox is installed to C: drive and sync folder is on D: drive the following problem can take place. Let's imagine one day disk D: will became nonfunctional and will not show up in the OS which is in the C: drive. The software will not detect the folder to sync and decide that folder is empty and delete all data on the server and i will LOSE ALL my data because disk d: is over and server became empty. Is my suspicion is wrong?

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