Plumbers Crack 4,035 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Thought I'd ask for advice before I start playing around with this. I use Dropbox on my work and home computers to store work files so I can work in either place easily. My problem is my home PC is running low on space on C: drive so I want to move the Dropbox folder to a different drive as it holds a lot of files with drawings etc Dropbox web site recommends keeping it on the same drive as the OS but this may not be practical for me. The different drive is internal so would be available when the machine is on. Has anyone done this and is it easy or are there complications? Thanks to Capn_Underpants for the artwork Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveCator 4 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 I'm not sure Dropbox uses any of your actual disk space. Dropbox is a cloud storage program meaning that it stores everything online. It shows as a folder on your PC so that you can easily access it but there is actually nothing stored locally. Easy way to check would be to move the folder to another drive and see if your available space changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diddums 4,305 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Dropbox does store a sync folder on your HDD. Google Drive doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveCator 4 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Dropbox does store a sync folder on your HDD. Google Drive doesn't. Surely the sync folder is tiny in comparison to the actual folder and just contains info on last view etc rather than all of the actual file data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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