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Subject: Re: Dropbox
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:47:18 +0100
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Am 11.03.24 um 12:22 schrieb Anssi Saari:
> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Can you see that file in a directory on the phone with a file manager?
> If not, it's as I said, Dropbox is not syncing. From the rest of your
> post it seems we have a very different view of what sync means. To me it
> means all files in all Dropbox directories copied to all synced systems,
> which is what Dropbox does on Windows and Linux PCs at least.

And it also does on Android and iOS.

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