Quick dropbox question
Sep 21, 2011 | 8:55 am
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Quick dropbox question
I have a quick Dropbox question. I used to use foldershare, which became Windows Livesync, which Microsoft then rigged so it wouldn't work any more for XP to try to force us all to upgrade.
I want to put this on a new computer that connects to the Internet through a wireless hotspot. It's a desktop machine and in another town so not easy to move. I only get about 5 gb of bandwidth a month with my wireless, so setting this up will eat virtually all of my bandwidth.
I was just wondering if I could copy the files onto a jump drive and manually put them in a folder named dropbox on the new computer and then set up the program, essentially pre-syncing the computer.
Is this possible?
I want to put this on a new computer that connects to the Internet through a wireless hotspot. It's a desktop machine and in another town so not easy to move. I only get about 5 gb of bandwidth a month with my wireless, so setting this up will eat virtually all of my bandwidth.
I was just wondering if I could copy the files onto a jump drive and manually put them in a folder named dropbox on the new computer and then set up the program, essentially pre-syncing the computer.
Is this possible?
Sep 21, 2011 | 9:00 am
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Another Dropbox feature is LAN sync; I set up Dropbox on a new computer yesterday and the other computers in the house pushed most of the files over much quicker than Dropbox's servers could have.
Last edited by BonzoESC; Sep 21, 2011 at 9:00 am Reason: correct wording, make shorter
Sep 21, 2011 | 10:00 am
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According to this thread in the dropbox forums
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33013
it will work just fine, copy the files and dropbox will work it all out as to not needing to copy them again. I have not tried it to confirm though.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33013
it will work just fine, copy the files and dropbox will work it all out as to not needing to copy them again. I have not tried it to confirm though.
Sep 22, 2011 | 8:34 am
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According to this thread in the dropbox forums
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33013
it will work just fine, copy the files and dropbox will work it all out as to not needing to copy them again. I have not tried it to confirm though.
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=33013
it will work just fine, copy the files and dropbox will work it all out as to not needing to copy them again. I have not tried it to confirm though.
Install Drop Box
Copy files from USB to dropbox folder done.