My laptop is jam packed full in terms of storage (it is quite old and has limited storage anyway) and I have just got some external hard drives to free up some space.
Approx. 30GB of this is partially synced Dropbox files. I have approx. 200GB on Dropbox itself. I have already backed up the DB folders on my computer to the external hard drive, and what I wanted to do was to change the link for the dropbox sync to the external hard drive and delete the files on C drive.
My plan was to unlink dropbox and then re-set up with folders in new location for syncing & then delete files on computer when complete (weeks?!).
a) Is it a good idea to sync to an external hard drive from DB?
b) Is there a more efficient way to achieve what I would like to do?
c) Is it necessary to name the hard drive first to avoid misreading and misappointing directory names when changing external hard drives?
Best Answer
Currently I'm looking for something similar, so I'll just share here my findings.
Cyberduck - You can use Cyberduck to sync your dropbox with an external HDD. I found the sync feature not super reliable and it doesn't delete removed files, it always add the files back.
pCloud - pCloud replaces DB completely and it also syncs with external HDD, but again their sync function with external drives are not reliable another option would be Sync.com
odrive - probably the best way, but expensive!
I'm still looking for a better solution to those.