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mlhanke's avatar
mlhanke
Explorer | Level 4
4 months ago

How can I put the Dropbox on my external hard drive and remove it from my PC hard drive?

I am running out of space on my hard drive that is on my PC. I have a large external hard drive that I would like to put Dropbox on in order to free up the space on my PC hard drive. How do I do that...
  • Rich's avatar
    4 months ago

    mlhanke wrote:
    I have a large external hard drive that I would like to put Dropbox on in order to free up the space on my PC hard drive. How do I do that?

    While that's certainly possible on a PC (no longer possible on a Mac), you should understand the risks involved as it's highly NOT RECOMMENDED.

     

    If the external drive becomes disconnected while Dropbox is running, Dropbox could see the sudden loss of the Dropbox folder as a mass deletion, at which point it would sync that deletion to your account online.

     

    You would be much better off buying a larger internal drive (even as a secondary drive if your computer has the room) and storing the Dropbox folder there.

     

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