Sync dropbox across multiple locations/hard drives

I've scoured this community forum and it looks like all users have been asking for the same thing since 2015...It's now 2021...  Is anyone at DB reading this?

We all need the ability to have multiple hard drives added to a single DB account.

Is this being worked on?  Or is it not even on the radar?

Please let us all know.

I personnaly switched to a similar online service that allow that.
I don't have the patience enough. I mean, this thread as been opened in 2015 and there is no clear snawer it will happen someday.
Good luck for people staying without a clue.

Same here, this would be such a useful feature! 

Want to get a reply from the development team if this is ever going to be added.

If not, I probably need to switch to another service..

Have been a DB user since the beginning. Now needing a pro solution that allows me to have ProTools/Ableton sessions on one external and all my samples on another. Need for those external HDs to be backed up. Please Dropbox crew, don't make me go to Backblaze. I really don't want to but its looking like thats my only option unless we get support on this. 

cc:DropboxAsh dropboxwes JohnDropbox Dropbox Ted kyledropbox 

I have a comment requesting this feature somewhere on this thread a few years ago.  I now use Boxifier to accomplish what I need.  Relatively painless, once set up, but it is not ideal in part because you have to pay for it.  Ideal would be if Dropbox would find the time to implement this.  As I said before, if Boxifier can do this, why can't Dropbox?  In the meantime, make sure you and all your friends and acquaintances vote for this using the "Vote For This Idea" button.

drewpreiner Hi there! I'm a PM at Dropbox, working on a solution for external drive support. Thank you for your feedback. 

I'd love to learn more about the ideal workflow you'd want. I take it you have sessions on one external device, samples on another. 

Assuming you could back up the two external drives directly to Dropbox, without taking up space on your computer, how would you use the files once in Dropbox? I.e. would you want to share / download / edit theses files, or is it mainly about backing up for prevention against data loss?

And carlf, it'd be great if you could share more about how you use Boxifier to accomplish your needs, and what Dropbox could build to make your life easier!

dropboxkelson I would envision using this with space-hogging files that I access rarely, like archived documents and photos. I'm on the 2TB paid plan so my dropbox can hold a lot more than my laptop's internal drive. For example, I could keep my photo library on an external hard drive and sync that with dropbox. When I eject the hard drive (I'm on a mac), I can disconnect it and everything is happy. I don't expect to be able to access anything when it's disconnected, and I would have to close my photo software which is accessing the drive before disconnecting it. There would just need to be a way for dropbox to release the drive (preferably, automatically) so my mac lets me eject it, without freaking out. Then when I plug the drive back in, dropbox sees it's there and continues to sync. I would envison that in dropbox sync preferences I can create define dropbox folders (one on the internal drive, one on the external drive) and then specify what from my account should be synced to each folder.

We've all had this issue, since 2014, and Dropbox has largely ignored this request. The problem goes like this. I have multiple hard drives, each about 500GB in size. I have a 2TB Dropbox account. I want to sync Dropbox across several hard drives in order to actually make use of that 2TB of space. This is impossible to do normally/easily, and some of the older methods described are difficult, convoluted, no longer work, or just plain require way too many steps or add-ons.

However, I have found a workaround solution that has been working for me so far (for Windows). It goes like this. You sign into your main Windows account. You make a Dropbox, and you install it on one of your drives. Then you log out of your Windows account so that you are back at Windows startup. You make and sign into another local account. With this new Windows login, install Dropbox again, on the next drive (using the same dropbox user login). Make sure to turn selective sync on and unsync Drive 1 from this Drive 2 account, so that you aren't syncing duplicates.

Do this for as many drives as you want to sync across, one Windows account login per drive, unfortunately.
Then, go back to your main Windows account. Files that you drop into those other drives will sync online after a few moments (it's a bit slower and doesn't show any syncing symbols, but it still seems to work!) You are now able to sync across multiple drives.

Sometimes you have to relogin to those other accounts for Dropbox to turn on again after a Windows update or major shutdown event but overall this loophole has been working for me and is fairly simple to do. Just make sure to turn on selective sync so that all the drives aren't resyncing themselves into eachother ad infinitum.

Also, Dropbox.. ADD THIS FEATURE FOR BUSINESS'S SAKE, ARE YOU KIDDING ME WHY ISN'T THIS ALREADY A THING?!?

PS: Or, as someone mentioned, just install Boxifier XD

carlf thanks for mentioning Boxifier! 

dropboxkelson here at Boxifier we've been extending the Dropbox desktop client to seamlessly sync external drives for many years now, so we have a pretty good idea of what Dropbox could build to make users' life easier. I'm happy to share our insights if that could benefit all Dropbox users working with external drives.

Razvan from Boxifier