Sync dropbox across multiple locations/hard drives

[Ashvin B.]

I have a larger dropbox account than my primary hard drive. It would be great if dropbox could support virtual links to files outside of it's default location, without those files having to also be in the main dropbox folder. I am aware of shortcuts/aliases on windows/OSX, but those don't solve the problem if my primary drive has limited space.

This is one workaround, but native support through the Dropbox client would be ideal: http://bobmckay.com/software/split-dropbox-across-multiple-drives

[Nancy]

Thank you for sharing your idea.

We have looked into this, but it is not something we are actively working on at this time.

We regularly review these ideas, and we will keep you updated if this idea moves forward in the future.

[James V.12]

I decided to try the method I mentioned above, and so far it seems to be working well.

[Angie D.2]

+1 vote for an integrated Dropbox solution for this with it knowing that certain directories are 'local' and certain ones are 'external' would be perfect.

[Fabrice D.3]

Having the ability to split a Dropbox between different drives would indeed help a lot of laptops users.

[Scott H.]

+1 vote for this. I have a Dropbox Pro Account with 1TB of dropbox storage and I am wanting to spread this over a Microsoft Surface Book with a 500GB SSD and a 500GB SDHC but currently cant do this without unsatisfactory third party workarounds.

[KevinBass]

Does anyone know any other cloud services that do offer this sort of thing? I'll be cancelling my subscription unless Dropbox steps up and implements a feature like this.

[Joseph M.9]

I hope they do something about this soon as I might be cancelling my pro account due to this issue. I have the 1TB pro version and a laptop drive that is only 500gb with my laptop maxed out and would like to keep my most used dropbox folders on my Laptop's SSD and keep the rest of the files that aren't used as much on an external drive for when I work and need them.

[gvh]

You'd think Dropbox would have an interest in supporting this, as the alternative is to use a second data synch service for the second mount point. Since I already subscribe to various others, I could just expand the storage on one of those instead of placing more data in Dropbox.

[Jonathan S.3]

Konrad's links above are broken. I too would like to link external drive folders on Mac. I read the info about Junction Link for PC but....

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@Ashvin B. wrote:

I have a larger dropbox account than my primary hard drive. It would be great if dropbox could support virtual links to files outside of it's default location, without those files having to also be in the main dropbox folder. I am aware of shortcuts/aliases on windows/OSX, but those don't solve the problem if my primary drive has limited space.

This is one workaround, but native support through the Dropbox client would be ideal: http://bobmckay.com/software/split-dropbox-across-multiple-drives

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[Tim C.16]

I'd like to upgrade to DropBox Pro as I need the 1TB storage but my data is spread across multiple hard drives. As I understand it all the data to be synched with DropBox has to be in the DropBox folder on the same drive.

Is DropBox going to lift this restriction or do I look elsewhere (e.g. pCloud)?

[ElizabethM]

Just got a new computer with a 175 GB SSD and 1TB normal - can't fit all my DropBox on the SSD but would like my working files to be on that.  Any solutions?