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JoPe
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago

Why does the Android app not allow to sync arbitrary folders to Android?

Apparently one needs a 3rd party app for this rather basic task: if I want to sync a folder or tree to Android, the Dropbox app is not able to do that. For a cloud storage service, I think the abilit...
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Rich
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2 years ago
JoPe wrote:

... if I want to sync a folder or tree to Android, the Dropbox app is not able to do that.

The mobile apps aren't full sync clients like the desktop apps are. The mobile apps are a way to view the contents of your account and upload or download a file as needed.

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