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Dropbox on SD card
I just bought a Dell Venue 8 Pro. One feature I was excited about was the SD card, and the ability to put my Dropbox files there without taking up half my internal storage. Unfortunately, Dropbox returns and error message when I try to do this. Dropbox support tersely states that they don't support this, which I think is poor customer service. I know their concern, but its an important feature for mobile customers (their concern is that if the SD card is ever removed the Cloud will read it as a deletion and delete all of the files - but I don't plan to remove the SD slot).
There is an app called DropboxPortableAHK (http://nionsoftware.com/dbpahk/) says it can allow the files to go to and sync from external media, but I've had a hard time installing it (looks like it finally took and is downloading files now).
Has anyone else had this issue? I imagine that my concerns are far from unusual. Any workarounds?
JordanMills
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March 5th, 2014 17:00
You need to go into powershell or the disk management console and mount the SD card as the dropbox folder.
BuzzLS
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March 5th, 2014 17:00
I didn't see any posts about that here, but found a few articles that might be helpful:
http://winsupersite.com/article/windows8/surface-tip-microsd-content-libraries-metro-apps-144658
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surfwinrt-surfdevice/mounting-a-micro-sd-card/8e371761-5c9a-4801-a782-d34e7732da5f
BuzzLS
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March 5th, 2014 17:00
Thanks - how do you do that?
JordanMills
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March 5th, 2014 17:00
See previous post.
me2olive
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March 6th, 2014 05:00
You could also use an NTFS directory junction, I have a few set up for Steam games, etc.
See http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html