![]() ![]() ![]() because unfortunately it appears the original website where it was available is no more and just has a squatter there: ( ). You could just as easily be including a folder that is already in a different location within Dropbox for the first time.ģ) Download the excellent free utility, you can download it directly from here. Note: I’m assuming here your are moving data that is in your Dropbox folder to a second location. leave the ‘Music’ folder in Dropbox but move all the folders within it). Gimme – How Do I Do It?įirst off be warned – Junction Points are a low-level operating system function and can cause problems if used incorrectly – use at your own risk! The Stepsġ) Stop Dropbox by exiting the application (right click on the System Tray icon and select exit)Ģ) Move the contents of the folder you wish to store elsewhere to the location you want it (leaving the parent folder in place, e.g. I exit Dropbox, link the empty folder C:\users\bob.mckay\dropbox\music to the folder on my secondary drive D:\DropBoxOverFlow\music restart Dropbox, then I simply sit back and watch the magic as the files are indexed as though they are siting the main Dropbox folder. To give a better example, my Dropbox has a folder called ‘Music’ in it – this is not a folder I need a great deal of performance on and can be relegated to my secondary standard (and slower) hard drive. Windows already uses junction points for a number of internal redirects (for example you may have noticed that c:\users\username\documents can also be accessed via c:\users\username\My Documents). Junction Points allow you to ‘mount’ a folder from one location to a point within another, creating a completely transparent link. As an IIS and Web Server geek, my first thought was Virtual Directories – a bit more research led me to the beefed up OS version: Junction Points. I started thinking about ways of being able to trick Dropbox in to thinking some folders on my secondary were actually sub folder of my Dropbox folder. Now admittedly Dropbox does have Selective Sync – the option to exclude some of your Dropbox folders on a given machine – but this still didn’t really solve my problem. A huge part of my storage needs are my Dropbox folder (I have a 185GB Dropbox due to all the referrals bonuses) but I don’t need all of the contents of my Dropbox to have SSD read speeds so that data is wasted on there. I recently upgraded my desktop’s hard drive to one of the amazing Crucial M500 SSD drives for the performance gains it brings but due to my limited budget, the size I bought wasn’t much bigger than the space I needed. Updated in 2019 after testing on Windows 10 ![]()
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