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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:

> db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I have Dropbox on my laptop and my ANdroid phone, but
>> they are not synchronised. How do I get it to
>> synch on the phone, with the laptop contents?
> 
> As far as I know, Dropbox doesn't sync on Android. You can access your
> Dropbox files with the app but syncing the whole Dropbox folder to your
> phone isn't supported.
> 
> If that's not what you mean, then what do you mean?

It does on my Android smartphone.  On my desktop PC, I added a file to
my Dropbox folder.  In under a minute (it was a small text file), it
showed up when using their web client.  I looked on my phone, and the
new file was listed there.

The offline mode (which I presume means files get download) is not part
of the free account.  However, when I clicked on the new file listed in
the Android Dropbox client, it opened okay on the phone.

Sure looks like their Android client on my smartphone syncs to my free
account for a file that came from their Windows client on my desktop PC.

The folder does not get synchronized.  It's what is in the folder.