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cnw
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Re: Move Dropbox folder to removable drive?

Nice!  I have my laptop tied to a large corporate Dropbox.  Stupidly I synced in what turned out to be 60Gb of stuff, which basically maxed out my 256Gb hard disk.  After applying Adam's workaround I got the not enough space message.  Dropbox apparently assumes the remaining space for the C drive includes the mounted drive.  Mollie's trick saved the day, since selective unsync dumped most of the 60Gb from C, allowing me to move the Dropbox folder to the SD card.  After selectively resyncing everything, my 60Gb of Dropbox stuff was restored (took quite a while).  If Dropbox thinks this is a bad idea, fine, but they should let it go with a warning rather than refuse to let the buyer beware.  Thanks.

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