/Dropbox Network Drive Hack
Last active Apr 27, 2018
Dropbox Network Drive Hack
| Follow these steps | |
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| 1) Create a folder on local disk Eg: C:\Users\keerthip\Documents\Dropbox | |
| 2) Create a Drive Letter Mapping eg:(H:) to the folder path in windows with following command | |
| subst H: C:\Users\keerthip\Documents\Dropbox | |
| 3) Install Dropbox desktop software in advanced Mode. | |
| Select the new local drive H: and sync either selective folders or all folder to local drive ( which is original folder path) | |
| 4) Wait till content is fully synced from web account | |
| 5) Pause Syncing and Exit Dropbox | |
| 6) Delete local folder drive mapping with following command | |
| subst H: /d | |
| 7) Remap your network drive with same Drive Letter Eg:H:\ | |
| 8) Copy your content from original location to network drive | |
| Eg; Copy created DropBox folder from C:\Users\keerthip\Documents to H:\ | |
| 9) Start Dropbox.Now Dropbox should work as usual |
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