Make the folder “local”: through group policy we can exclude some folders from the roaming part of a folder.
In the case we want to exclude Dropbox content from the roaming part of a user profile we actually have a few different options: Changing this location can be useful for a number of reasons: perhaps you want to be able to access this folder very quickly through Windows Explorer (for example, by browsing to C:\Dropbox instead of SYSTEMDRIVE:\Users\USER\Dropbox) or perhaps you want to exclude this piece of data from the roaming part of a profile because logon and logoff with roaming profiles is too slow because of the huge size this data has? You may not forget that this content includes the Dropbox cache, which can be many, many gigabytes! There, in the section “Dropbox location”, you can change the folder where to put the real Dropbox content not only do you change the folder, possibly previous content is moved (not just copied!) to the new location too. You can change this folder location through the Dropbox GUI: right-click the Dropbox icon in the notification area, select Preferences and click on the Advanced button. By default this folder belongs to the roaming part of a profile. Just like APPDATA, USERPROFILE is an environment variable, typically referring to SYSTEMDRIVE:\Users\USER (capitalized words should be replaced, for example SYSTEMDRIVE is typically “C”). This folder is located by default at %USERPROFILE%\Dropbox. When you configure your Dropbox account a second Dropbox folder is created, this time meant for Dropbox content related to your Dropbox account. Anyway, the Dropbox folder mentioned is used for storing Dropbox configuration settings. This folder contains applications’ roaming application data, which is data that gets a special meaning when used with roaming profiles: their roaming parts are copied from (at logon) and to (at logoff) a profile server, which is a centralized place for storing user profiles. “APPDATA” is an environment variable (the % prefix and suffix tells us APPDATA should be treated as an environment variable and not as a literal string), typically referring to SYSTEMDRIVE:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming (capitalized words should be replaced, for example SYSTEMDRIVE is typically “C”). How to use a network path for Dropbox’ content folderĭropbox puts its application data in %APPDATA%\Dropbox.
0 kommentar(er)
