Dropbox on a Pen Drive or SD card

There are situations when we need to make the dropbox folder on a removable media but we can't as dropbox doesn't support it. Here is the solution for the same:

1. You can have your Dropbox folder on removable media (a flash/thumb/Pen drive/SD card) on Windows. If you have a flash/thumb drive, you will first need to mount it. This is done by:


a. Control panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Storage --> Disk Management
b. Right click on the flash/thumb drive, select Change Drive Letter and Paths…
c. Select add, then select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, browse to your C:, select New Folder…
d. Name the folder "DB Mount", click OK, click OK, click OK. Close Computer Management.
e. You can now access your flash/thumb drive through its removable storage location (drive letter) or through the mounted location (C: DB Mount). Dropbox requires a local drive (the mounted volume).

2. Download Dropbox at: https://www.dropbox.com/install (You will have to signup for an account if you don't already have one).

3. If you have a flash/thumb drive, install Dropbox to the mounted drive in C:, named DB Mount. Select the this as the location for your Dropbox directory.

 4. If you already have dropbox installed, go in its preferences> sync>move and give it the location of DB Mount folder we just created by going in C drive and then DB Mount.

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