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TaxiKB42
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2 years ago
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More than one computer

Is it possible to have more than one computer associated with an account and be able to have separate folders?

  • The whole point of Dropbox is to have multiple computers 🙂

     

    However, if you mean a separate folder structure for each machine? No. The idea is it is shared across all. 

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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
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    2 years ago

    The whole point of Dropbox is to have multiple computers 🙂

     

    However, if you mean a separate folder structure for each machine? No. The idea is it is shared across all. 

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    TaxiKB42
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Thanks, Mark. I thought that might be the case but  I wanted to see if I could add a new structure.

    Keith

  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
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    2 years ago

    TaxiKB42 wrote:

    I thought that might be the case but  I wanted to see if I could add a new structure.


    The only way to do that on a single account would be to utilize Selective Sync. You would either select the specific folders that you want to sync to each device, or you could first create a separate folder for each device and use Selective Sync to remove those folders from the other devices.

     

    The latter option is easier to manage. Let's say you have three computers; A, B and C. You create three folders; FolderA, FolderB and FolderC. You use Selective Sync to remove FolderB and C from computer A, you remove FolderA and C from computer B, and you remove FolderA and B from computer C. Then you only ever store your files in either FolderA, B or C, depending on the computer you're using.

     

    Doing it that way means you only needed to un-sync two folders from each computer. If you just store everything in the root of your Dropbox instead of creating a folder for each device, you'll constantly be going in to Select Sync to remove content from the other computers.

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