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For many years I have worked between Mac computers at home and at the office using an external hard drive to sync my files, however I would like to change to a Dropbox folder instead, for convenience and security reasons.
I would like to know if I can automatically sync a copy of my dropbox files to my external hard drive so I can still use it if I need to travel and there's no wifi to connect to dropbox.
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This answer is an embarassment!
Google Drive has no problem being on an external drive. If you start up without the drive present they just warn you and then go into a disabled state.
What does DropBox do? It deletes your preferences and settings, so when you do plug in the external drive you have to set it up again.
No problem, I hear you say, I've got all the data so it should be easy.
Not the case. First of all you run into the 'There's already a folder called Dropbox' error when trying to point to the old location. So you rename, create the new dropbox folder, then move all the contents into the new dropbox folder from the old. Guess what? It will take hours (or days in my case) to resync and use gigs of your network connection.
It is pathetic and the reason that I switched to Google Drive for my laptop.
Can the DropBox app's startup be delayed, allowing sufficient time for any external drives to boot up? Or perhaps the DropBox app can be removed from the start up items, and instead be launched manually when the user sees that the external hard drive has booted and is recognized by the Mac?
1) Right click the Dropbox icon in the system tray at the the top of your screen on Mac
2) Click on the gear icon in the Notifications panel and select "Preferences" from the menu
3) Verify that the box next to "Start Dropbox on system startup" is unchecked.
Jane
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