MacBook Air / Dropbox transfer conundrum

MacBook Air / Dropbox transfer conundrum

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RRH

Original Poster:

562 posts

246 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Chaps (and girls),

I'm facing a minor dilemma with dropbox since I've switched to a macbook air from my trusty Pro.

In essence, it relates to transferring data so is probs a one-off issue.

What I want to do is copy all of my photos and music in to dropbox - circa 200gb in all. Since Dropbox upgraded from 100gb to 1Tb the other day this is now do-able, or so I thought.

Now how I'd usually do it is just transfer in to my dropbox folder on the Mac and it'd sync.

However, I only have 128gb SSD in the macbook, and c30gb free.

Is there a way I can send the 200gb+ to dropbox (it's on NAS and USB drive at the moment)?

I've tried doing it through the web interface but it doesn't seem to want to unpload directories, just files.

Any help would be appreciated smile

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Attach the drive to your MacBook, create an Alia for it and put the alias in your Dropbox.

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/tips-and-tricks/sync-ot...

Or just upload the files via the web interface - by dragging the folder onto the web page.

RRH

Original Poster:

562 posts

246 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Thanks for that.
Will try the alias thing.

Web upload won't do the directories, just individual files.

marshalla

15,902 posts

200 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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RRH said:
Thanks for that.
Will try the alias thing.

Web upload won't do the directories, just individual files.
It will - I just checked it. Drag the folder onto the Dropbox listing in your web browser.

RRH

Original Poster:

562 posts

246 months

Tuesday 2nd September 2014
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Ok, will try again, I tried yesterday and it wouldn't do it. Maybe browser specific, will try safari. Thanks again.

Koofler

616 posts

165 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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selective sync may help.

upload a folder, then turn it off in the selective sync section. rinse and repeat.

RRH

Original Poster:

562 posts

246 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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That works for web uploads, but if I turn it off on the MBA I can't see the folder to upload to!

I've decided to try and de-dupe the music collection first, makes sense to me wobble