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MJay241
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Dropbox - Synced to Network Share
Hi.
Just curious into asking about syncing a Dropbox agent to a Windows network share to allow other people to access and modify files. The idea was to have an agent sat on a Windows File Server, ...
- 2 years ago
As for shared folders, you can start by taking a look at this Help Center article.
Let us know if you have any other questions MJay241
Mark
Super User II
I cannot say this enough - do not do it. You will almost certainly end up with data loss and corruption. If the drive disconnects at all it may be seen as a total deletion of all data and replicate this across everwhere. Also. Dropbox wouldn't get a flag that files edited by others on the drive had changed and so not sync these changes.
Walter
2 years agoDropbox Staff
As for shared folders, you can start by taking a look at this Help Center article.
Let us know if you have any other questions MJay241
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