You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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Can we have more folder options like custom folders or sub-folders to add to Computer Backup?
Right now, the automated backup option in Dropbox allows me to sync my Documents, Desktop and Downloads folders. By far the biggest - and most important - folder on my computer is the Music folder though. I can imagine for other people it's Pictures. Could we have a way to automatically backup those folders too?
To be really ambitious: would we be able to clone our computer on Dropbox? I used to have an Apple Time Machine that allowed you to do just that. If your computer broke down or was stolen, you could buy a new one, let it download the clone, including not just your documents but your applications and presets too, and you'd be good to go!
Please let Dropbox be the new Time Machine.
I wholeheartedly support this request.
I have created a large number of distinct, separate folders of Digital data from A-D (analogue to digital devices) which are located in the root of my C:\ drive.
I need to be able to back them up in DropBox without having to move them to DeskTop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, , etc.
A bit difficult to say whether I am on Backup Beta or not... Either way, if I understood correctly, and its not easy, I sort of need to first enable any backup in order to turn the Beta version on? Well thats difficult, because my Dropbox folder is not on the C drive, thus, it seems this is a closed circle.
When I click to look for more folders, there is no "Browse" dialog or anything- just a list of random folders from the User folder.
Was stupid of me to get my hopes up for this feature after getting the email lol.
Actually, no, there has been no meaningful progress of any kind at all. This is for how many years now?
And, no, if you happen to have your Documents, Pictures, etc., folders in anything but the default location, you will not be able to backup anything whatsoever. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Dropbox will ask you to move these folders to their default location, which is rank idiocy, and simply impossible for anyone who had a good reason to move those folders in the first place.
The current status of this feature is that you can now backup external drives as well as any arbitrary folders within your own user folder. I would prefer to be able to select any folder within the C drive, since I do place some documents at the top of my C drive, though I am probably just weird. This feature is in a much better place than when this idea was posted over 2 years ago, but maybe the developers can be convinced to remove this one last restriction? 🙂
It's baffling that this extremely basic feature is not supported by DropBox until today.
Especially becasue they are fast when they want our money for the subscription, but not when they need to develop
It's a shame that this has not been implemented or even acted on, despite having been informed about this almost 2 years ago.
Not sure if someone has mentioned that now on Mac Pictures, Music folders could be synched too with Dropbox. Every other files, documents i need to sync, i put under Dropbox folder
Fun fact, if the dropbox folder is on a different partition than these basic Desktop, documents etc. locations, then this wont work as wel!
I was intending to try and fool this poor feature by making some links into the Music directory (via mklink), but the partition issue didn't allow me to even try that. But maybe mklink could work for someone else, who has the Dropboz folder on C partition.
