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I’ve been really wanting to use Dropbox for a few years now as a backup solution. Can’t backup external drives, so that rules it out on my Mac (and probably most these days given Apple’s pricing on SSDs). Can’t backup my NAS either. So no Dropbox backups for me and no paid tiers. How’s about you make it so I can use your…
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Yes I would also expect that behaviour. I’m investigating smart previews in Lightroom, etc., to see if it will provide a solution to this. If so, this would be a great way of achieving what I want to do with Dropbox.
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Thanks, that's really useful. OK so my only concern with using Dropbox this way is that I don't know whether Lightroom will try to download the entire photo library as preview, or only do it on-demand when I actually try to edit a file as opposed to just viewing the film-strip. I might try doing a test on a small library,…
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That’s great, thanks for the reply. A couple more questions since you’re using it that way, if I may? - can you set sync settings at a folder or file level? So, e.g., I could have a current documents folder I’m actually working with on the Mac synced locally, but all other folders online only on the Mac and local on the…
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I have a similar, although slightly different scenario - I have two computers, one is my MacBook Pro which has a limited space 500GB SSD and a Dell PC with a much larger HDD. I'd like to upgrade Dropbox so I have 2TB storage, but wouldn't want all my files to only be online. So, due to the difference in HDD space on the…
