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Dropbox Network Drive Hack
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| Follow these steps | |
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| 1) Create a folder on local disk Eg: C:\Users\keerthip\Documents\Dropbox | |
| 2) Create a Drive Letter Mapping eg:(H:) to the folder path in windows with following command | |
| subst H: C:\Users\keerthip\Documents\Dropbox | |
| 3) Install Dropbox desktop software in advanced Mode. | |
| Select the new local drive H: and sync either selective folders or all folder to local drive ( which is original folder path) | |
| 4) Wait till content is fully synced from web account | |
| 5) Pause Syncing and Exit Dropbox | |
| 6) Delete local folder drive mapping with following command | |
| subst H: /d | |
| 7) Remap your network drive with same Drive Letter Eg:H:\ | |
| 8) Copy your content from original location to network drive | |
| Eg; Copy created DropBox folder from C:\Users\keerthip\Documents to H:\ | |
| 9) Start Dropbox.Now Dropbox should work as usual |
I'm sorry about that.
yes, I tried the same thing on the other pc but didn't work. as I successfully made it work before and I posted above.
the difference between the two attempts was-
1st pc: I fully synchronize the dropbox first. and that was a free account.
2nd pc: I didn't synchronize fully because it was very big. and it was a pro account.
I still have hope for you. only if you can synchronize the dropbox completely first. and then you follow the steps.
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I tried alnoman's steps, but I keep getting a permission error after I did everything and dropbox reopens.