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datatoo
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Backing up a computer to one of several accounts

I am trying to backup a computer to a folder I created in an account defined by 3 separate emails. I wish to backup to one of the email accounts. I ID’d the server location as \\dropbox.com\home\m...
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Rich
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3 years ago
datatoo wrote:

I ID’d the server location as \\dropbox.com\home\my email account\path to folder. ... please ask your IT what the exact path to the server is ...

That's not how Dropbox works. There is no path that you can enter into your software to be able to write to your Dropbox storage.

 

Any application that needs to write to your Dropbox account needs to connect to Dropbox using the Dropbox API. Your Dropbox account doesn't act like a network share (as in the path you tried to use above).

 

If your software says it works with cloud accounts, refer to the software's documentation on how to connect to Dropbox, or contact the software's developers for information on how to link their software to Dropbox.

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