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Steve R.8
7 months agoExplorer | Level 3
How to Sync my second hard drive again to Dropbox
I run a telescope imaging system in California while I live in Virginia. I've had Dropbox installed for a good number of years but some time back I had to stop syncing as the system was in repair. Fo...
Jay
7 months agoDropbox Staff
Hi Steve R.8, thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Files in another folder wouldn't be automatically synced to your Dropbox account, unless you'be enabled the Dropbox Backup feature, or have another third party app or service to act as a go-between to sync them to Dropbox.
Could you let me know how exactly files were synced from the E: to your Dropbox account?
This will help me to assist further!
- Steve R.87 months agoExplorer | Level 3
I honestly don't recall. I had set this up 5-6 years ago. I know Dropbox is installed on the remote computer and it has a dedicated drive and folder for the images to be saved to when down loaded from the imaging system, E:\Dropbox. On that computer I have the E drive with only one folder, Dropbox. As the images are downloaded from the telescope they are saved to that drive and a folder that is created by the imaging script such as M109. Each image has a specific name that indicates object name, date.time, and filter used so no two images are the same name.
Then the home computer has Dropbox installed and designated drive F:\David_SRO\Dropbox which currently has nothing in it. This is where the remote data would download when synced.
Seems I used to have it so when new images were downloaded to the remote system it would save to my local folder at home automatically.
I'm not sure what more I can do to explain the setup. This is all of course over the internet and I have 100Mb connection (fiber) as does the remote observatory site.
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