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Multiple Dropbox & Google Drive accounts in Finder — is there a simple way?

I have personal and work accounts for both Dropbox and Google Drive and want to see them as folders in Finder without running separate desktop apps or syncing everything to my Mac; I don’t really know the usual tricks, so I’m looking for a straightforward approach that keeps things accessible in Finder, survives sleep and brief connection drops, and doesn’t need a lot of fiddling—any simple tips or common pitfalls to watch out for?

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haroldrobinson21

Hey,

Just to clarify — my second account is a regular personal account, not a business account, so the standard Dropbox app doesn’t support connecting two accounts simultaneously in Finder. I tried CloudMounter, and it worked for connecting multiple accounts. Sorry for the late update.

Thanks for the suggestion

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Rich

haroldrobinson21 wrote:
I have personal and work accounts for ... Dropbox ... and want to see them as folders in Finder without running separate desktop apps ...

Is one of the accounts a Dropbox Business account? If so, you can link a personal account and a Business account and have both appear in Finder.

https://help.dropbox.com/account-access/link-unlink-two-accounts

This only works with one personal account and one Business account. You can't link two personal accounts or two Business accounts together.

garrycoach

Think of each cloud account as its own mounted drive in Finder — set things to online‑only so your disk doesn’t fill up, and keep personal and work logins separate so stuff doesn’t get mixed. Do a quick test first (1–2 GB, a few dozen files) to check drag‑and‑drop, opening and deleting behave the way you expect.

Two things to watch: APIs can throttle you if you shove thousands of tiny files at once, and mounts sometimes drop after sleep, so test waking the Mac and a reconnect. Also, moving files between accounts can lose share links or version history, so back up anything important and do the big move in chunks rather than all at once.

itahoki

One more practical angle that hasn’t been said yet — think about cache and system integration rather than just the mount itself. Put any cache on an external drive or limit its size so Finder doesn’t try to index everything; disable Spotlight indexing for the mounted volumes if you notice CPU or disk activity spiking. Keep work and personal credentials stored separately (use Keychain) and check reconnect/keep‑alive settings so mounts come back after sleep. Also test moving a few shared folders first to see how permissions and share links behave, and split big transfers into chunks to avoid API throttling and accidental conflicts. I’ve used CloudMounter in a setup like this and it lets you mount multiple accounts, but whatever tool you pick, make sure it exposes reconnect options, cache control and some form of logging so you can spot issues quickly.

haroldrobinson21

Hey,

Thanks for the suggestion