One of the things that has helped most to consolidate the success of Dropbox has been its simplicity in offering us cloud storage space and synchronization with our local folders on different computers (and of any platform, of course).
But sometimes our need may lead us to want to synchronize another folder, for example one located on an external hard drive, a solution that allows us to save space for other purposes and carry with us the contents always synchronized between our external hard drive and our Dropbox account.
Now we're going to see how to move our Dropbox folder to an external hard drive in Ubuntu . To do this, we first need to go to the Unity Dash and look for the 'hard drive utility' and there select the external drive that we're going to use as storage space.
Next, click the gear icon and then 'Format drive' . After that, specify the file system as NTFS . You can also give it a name to quickly identify it among all your drives, and then click the 'Format' button.
After formatting, we need to re-select the tools menu and edit the mount options, where we must set the mount point to the Dropbox folder , indicate that this drive should be mounted when we turn on our computer, and set the file type to ntfs-3g and the following mount options: rw,auto,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0.
We click OK, then exit Dropbox and delete the current folder (located at /home/username/Dropbox ). We log back into Dropbox, and it will notify us that our local folder is missing, offering to reset the location . We choose the advanced option and manually specify the location of our new Dropbox folder, which must, of course, be on the drive we formatted.
That's it, we can now enjoy a new folder on our external drive.
More information – Access Dropbox from the Linux terminal and via the app