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Sync files between multiple computers

Sync files between multiple computers - Dropbox Tutorial

From the course: Learning Dropbox

Sync files between multiple computers

- [Instructor] Dropbox keeps all the files in your Dropbox folders synchronized with your storage space on dropbox.com. In fact, you can keep Dropbox folders on multiple computers in sync. This is really handy for keeping a laptop and desktop computer up to date with the same files or for keeping a work computer synchronized with a home computer. To do this, just install the Dropbox application on each computer that you want to keep in sync and sign into the Dropbox application with the same Dropbox username and password on each of these computers. Then when you add a file to the Dropbox folder on one computer, it'll appear on the others. If you remove a file from the Dropbox folder on one of the computers, it will be deleted on the others. Off screen, I've got my laptop computer sitting here with the Dropbox app installed, and I'm signed in with the same Dropbox account as this computer. I'm going to drag a…

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