Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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Nice tip till the official app comes out
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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hahahha now that is an awesome tip. Something so simple but so helpful. This will kind of be better than a drop box app since everything will be updated on both locations from the one sky drive app. I'm going to try this at home. Thanks!
Montastic said:
Most of you may know this already.
There is no Dropbox app for Surface RT yet. However, if you have enough space in your Skydrive to spare, you can have your Dropbox folder inside the SkyDrive folder on your desktop.
I have 25G on my SkyDrive and about 5G on Dropbox. Once I changed my Dropbox location to inside Skydrive folder, I was able to access all the files from the Surface SkyDrive app.
Another option is to use "File Manager" app - there is a free as well as a paid version. It allows you to link a bunch of cloud storage locations (Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox etc) and allows a variety of changes on files/folders - some which are not available on the Skydrive app.
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Hmm - So your Dropbox folder would be relocated on all your desktop systems to within your skydrive, or just one desktop. I have been using All my storage app on my Surface and it works pretty good.
guitar1969 said:
Hmm - So your Dropbox folder would be relocated on all your desktop systems to within your skydrive, or just one desktop. I have been using All my storage app on my Surface and it works pretty good.
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When you move your Dropbox folder in your SkyDrive folder, SkyDrive treats it as just like any other folder. So all your PCs/tablets that has SkyDrive will now see a folder called "Dropbox".
The Dropbox app will continue to sync this folder and so all PCs/tablets that has Dropbox will see the changes to this folder.
Of course, if you do not do this on one of your desktops, then you will have a Skydrive folder which has a Dropbox folder in it as well your original Dropbox folder which might be at a different location.
As long as you understand that Skydrive will sync its folders and Dropbox its, you'll be in good shape.
There won't be a dropbox sync app for windows RT/surface RT. 3rd party apps need to use metro, and there are too many limitations to be able to sync folders. There might be a metro only version though.
phailyoor said:
There won't be a dropbox sync app for windows RT/surface RT. 3rd party apps need to use metro, and there are too many limitations to be able to sync folders. There might be a metro only version though.
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It was already officially announced that a Dropbox app is being developed for Windows RT and 8. Even if the app itself it metro only, obviously it will have the capability to sync your files, even if active syncing only occurs when you use the Metro app. That is the whole point of Dropbox.
I can't wait for the app to be released. That is the main thing I am currently missing with my Surface. Unfortunately this SkyDrive hack won't work for me because I have 23GB of free storage through Dropbox and on SkyDrive you only get 7
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It was already officially announced that a Dropbox app is being developed for Windows RT and 8. Even if the app itself it metro only, obviously it will have the capability to sync your files, even if active syncing only occurs when you use the Metro app. That is the whole point of Dropbox.
I can't wait for the app to be released. That is the main thing I am currently missing with my Surface. Unfortunately this SkyDrive hack won't work for me because I have 23GB of free storage through Dropbox and on SkyDrive you only get 7
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It's not actually syncing the files, just giving you access to them, like the metro skydrive app. It's essentially equivalent to a glorified version of the website, since the files are not stored on your computer in any way until you access them.
phailyoor said:
It's not actually syncing the files, just giving you access to them, like the metro skydrive app. It's essentially equivalent to a glorified version of the website, since the files are not stored on your computer in any way until you access them.
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This is what I miss.
Even for SkyDrive, I would like to tell it what folders to sync and have them synced in the background or even manually, but it should sync all files in that folder and be available offline.
The desktop client for SkyDrive recently added selective sync but I wish it was available on Surface.
FWIW, even the Dropbox client on Android doesn't really sync automatically - however, you can mark some files as favorites and it will sync those when you use the app.
I have an android set top device and want to sync/auto backup a folder on mnt/external1 with a folder on /mnt/external2 or the sdcard1 and sdcard2 either way. I have not found any apps in the app store to manually set synced or backup folders. There are many that sync to cloud drives the closest I could find is titanium media sync but that syncs to an ftp/other type site, not to another local location. I am hoping there is an app that will do this sim-ly and automatically. I currently use a pogoplug running archlinux with rsync but would like to transfer to only using the android box.
ideas?
I just installed bit torrent sync app on my phone (S5), laptop and desktop.
I want to sync my phone camera photos to other two devices. After I deleted phone photos, I don't need to automatically delete them on my PC's. I want to keep that photos in other locations. So how do I configure bit torrent sync app to do it? When I'm configuring sync app on my Galaxy s5 I can't see such a option.
Also are there any chance to link external SD card folders? Because my music's are in external SD.
Hi Guys,
Haven't posted before but need a solution as it's driving me insane!
Currently using a Mac and thus using the sony bridge app however there is no option to automatically sync photos?
I have to either group select the ones I want to transfer to iPhoto, or hit "import all" (would not recommend as it ending up creating duplicates of all my photos).
My only request is to connect the phone via usb and have my photos (both saved and camera) be transferred to iPhoto without any manual processes. I had a Nokia 925 prior to the Sony and syncing with my mac was surprisingly much easier!
If anyone could help that would be great, I just like to have a backup of all my photos just in case the phone decides to die on me.
Cheers
You could use autobackup on Google Photos or Microsoft OneDrive (30GB free now), that way it syncs online and you can have a copy on your Mac
I have a Netgear NAS so the mobile app auto syncs. Before that I used to use OneDrive, as it automatically adds everything on my PC.
Hello everyone!
My name is Katerina, and I would like to introduce you new cloud sync & security tool!
New Android version of Cloudifile, cloud data sync and protection tool for Dropbox, is already on Google Play.
Cloudifile for Android is an important extension of desktop version of Cloudifile. First, let’s discuss what exactly Cloudifile is.
We all like Dropbox. But sometimes we want it to be a bit smarter.
You have a number of folders at your computers. And you want data from them to be in your Dropbox cloud at each moment. That’s it.
You don’t want to drag content carefully each time to the Dropbox folder. You don’t want to work with a single synchronized folder. You want this, this, and this one to act as the Dropbox folder from now on.
Cloudifile will do exactly this for you.
Cloudifile is an application that helps you to sync any number of folders with Dropbox and protect their content in the cloud and on your local devices.
Watch the video on the Cloudifile website to learn more details.
How it Works?
Cloudifile automatically syncs selected folders with Dropbox, simultaneously encrypts their content and ensures easy and transparent access to it both locally and from the cloud.
Notice that Cloudifile is FREE for personal use. It includes versions for Windows, MacOS (beta), and Android app .
Cloudifile for Android is an important extension of the solution enabling access to the protected data within Dropbox from Android devices as well as secure uploading of data from a device to the cloud and thus to any synchronized desktop folders.
Android app allows:
- Uploading data directly to Cloudifile to sync it with Dropbox or any synced desktop folder
- Uploading data from other apps to Cloudifile
- Sharing cloudified data to other apps to view/edit it
- Downloading cloudified data to device in decrypted form
- Deleting file/folder from Cloudifile
Any feedback on this tool would be really useful! Thanks