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I have a larger dropbox account than my primary hard drive. It would be great if dropbox could support virtual links to files outside of it's default location, without those files having to also be i...
Hi,
I have read the entire thread about this now. It is good to see that I am not alone with this want/need. I have about 650GB of photos in my dropbox. So far I have been using selective sync to work with this. This is all fine until I want to tidy up some old non-synced folder or quickly find old photos of my daughter for a celebration for instance. My solution at the moment is to have the entire dropbox synced to an old linux machine and mount that folder as a Samba drive. This works but access is sloow. I then got the idea to sync everything to a fast external USB drive and work with this (the feature requested in this thread). This way I can plug in the external drive when I need to access everything and use the laptop SSD for just the recent files. After seeing how Dropbox drags their feet with this feature request I think I am left with three options:
1. Buy a mac with a really large SSD (2TB for room to grow)
2. Buy the fastest NAS I can get, install dropbox sync on this box and use wired ethernet to the NAS (I wonder how much faster this will be than my current solution?).
3. Forget about dropbox and move over to pCloud. Then I can sync all files to a fast USB drive(?)
4. Wait for Dropbox to understand that this is needed
I will now check out pCloud and see how they compare. I have been paying for Dropbox since 2016 and I am currently on the 2TB plan. I will probably decide if I should switch or not before Dropbox resolves this problem.