Dropbox: Using Selective Sync Melissa Holt @melissacholt. 1 minute read Jul 7th, 2016 9:15 AM EDT. With this, you can choose which data you want to sync down to your Mac, so if there’s a. Why is the new version of Dropbox using so much memory on my mac? Currently Dropbox is using 258.9 MB of memory. I don't use Smart Sync. I don't have more than 300,000 files synced to my mac. I don't use the desktop app or want to use it, I use the standard Dropbox app that lives in the Menubar. I don't use 'Selective Sync' Dropbox version: 79. On Macs His method is something we've seen before. Essentially he's created a symlink to sync files and folders outside the My Dropbox folder.On a Mac, the command looks like. Open your Dropbox folder. To find it, click the Finder icon in the Dock (a smiling blue and gray Mac logo), then click Dropbox in the left panel. This folder is like your Dropbox “home,” meaning that anything you add to this folder will be synced to your Dropbox account so you can access them from anywhere.
Back in December, we reviewed Dropbox, the standout combination of a Mac program and Web service that creates a special Dropbox folder on your Mac, and then automatically syncs anything in that folder to the Dropbox servers and to any other computers you’ve configured for Dropbox. That article was the most-read Mac Gems review of all of 2010, despite being published the final week of the year, which speaks to Dropbox’s popularity.
Dropbox has become an essential tool for many Macworld editors. We use it to keep files—and even program settings—in sync between our work and home computers, or between our desktops and laptops; to view those files on our iOS devices; to share files and photos with other people; and as a form of off-site backup. Judging from the comments on our review, you’re using it quite a bit, as well.
Because Dropbox’s potential uses are so varied, we’re going to be putting together a collection of tips and procedures to help you get more out of the service. But we know we haven’t thought of every possible use for Dropbox, so we’d like to turn to you, our readers, for inspiration. Do you have any interesting or unique ways in which you take advantage of Dropbox’s features? Have you created an amazing workflow using Dropbox? Let us know in the comments below, or drop me an e-mail. If we use your tip, we’ll give you full credit. We’ll also randomly choose a few submitters to receive a stylish Macworld Help Desk mug.
Read our full Dropbox review
Dropbox is the most popular consumer online storage platform, now with over half a billion users in the system. Their primary client is the Dropbox desktop sync client, which mirrors a folder named Dropbox out to the cloud. It works great. However, as the amount of data you deal with in Dropbox or the number of users all accessing the same storage in Dropbox for Business starts to increase, sync gets pretty messy. Things like figuring out how to deal with different users that only have permission to a subset of the data or dealing with a 5TB dropbox account with users that only have a few hundred GB of storage on their Windows 7 laptops start to become real problems.
Map Dropbox as a Drive
ExpanDrive solves this by letting you actually mount Dropbox as a virtual drive on Mac and Windows. This lets you access your content natively, from Finder or Explorer, without having to sync the data. It’s all on demand, like a regular native filesystem. To get started, you want to download ExpanDrive.
Version 7.7.9 for Mac, Windows and Linux
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Once you’ve downloaded and installed ExpanDrive, you’ll want to select the option to create a new Dropbox Drive.
ExpanDrive will now ask you to authorize a connection between ExpanDrive and Dropbox. This is a secure direct connection between your computer and Dropbox, ExpanDrive has no server that sits in between you.
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Once you’ve established the connection, you’ll have a virtual drive accessible from every application on your machine including Finder and Explorer.
How To Use Dropbox On Macbook
System Requirements
Dropbox For Apple Mac
ExpanDrive supports macOS 10.10 or newer and a wide variety of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Centos, Fedora, Redhat, and more. Learn more about how to install ExpanDrive for Linux here.
ExpanDrive runs on Microsoft Windows 7 through Windows 10. Windows Server is also supported as well as RDP/Terminal services environments. ExpanDrive can isolate multiple users logged into the same machine so they each have their own view of cloud storage.