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Options are abound in the current climate when it comes to looking at cloud storage options. The big players, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft with OneDrive and, more recently, Apple with their iCloud Drive offering, are becoming gradually more competitive when it comes to their pricing. Choosing the right option is actually more difficult than you would at first think. I’d say that the decision is so difficult, I find myself now using a combination of all four! I use Dropbox due to it’s superb interoperability with the majority of the iOS and Mac Apps I use, Google Drive because it is built into my Google Apps for Work account, OneDrive for Business with my Office 365 account and iCloud (NOT Drive as yet) for Pages and Numbers documents. I won’t go into the reasons why I actually have a need for this, however each option has both advantages and disadvantages.

This post is intended to dispel one of the myths regarding to a disadvantage of one such application and that is Dropbox.

There has been some confusion with regards to the way that Dropbox synchronises it’s data when you are working on a desktop. Many people tend to side-step Dropbox as an option because they believe that whatever is stored in Dropbox has to be mirrored on your device and this simply isn’t true thanks to the Selective Sync preference setting built into the Desktop application.

If you open the Dropbox preference settings and click on the Selective Sync button, you can untick and folders that you do NOT wish to be stored on your local hard drive. This will help with any storage concerns you have on your local device yet still allow you to have the ability to retrieve files from the cloud as and when you need simply by going to the web app or through any other computers that are linked to your Dropbox account.

Simple. However for more information, then simply visit this Dropbox Help Page

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Lee Garrett

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