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nupa's avatar
nupa
Helpful | Level 5
6 months ago

How to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC?

Currently it is impossible to share a Dropbox folder between Windows and Linux installs on the same PC. They appear to contain the same files with the same metadata, but Dropbox for Linux refuses to ...
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MiaWolf's avatar
MiaWolf
New member | Level 2
6 days ago

I keep checking back to see if Dropbox is going to let us point to our NTFS partition while on the Linux side again, as that's the only reason I can't do dual boot right now; I don't have enough storage space to double up everything on my laptop >< 

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