Nothing downloads in the background, and while it's a little slow, it does generally copy from Dropbox, through mountain duck/cloud mounter, to the destination without issue. Accessing/modifying/copying files or folders from within that mounted drive is just like it would be if you were working off a regular locally attached network drive. Both Mountain Duck and cloud mounter allow you to connect your Dropbox account directly to the app, and mount your Dropbox folder as a volume. Both of these apps are a little too slow for my workflow, not sure what that's attributed to, but that's a different conversation. I'll give you 2 examples of this:Įxample 1: Mountain Duck, or Cloud Mounter and Dropboxīoth Mountain Duck and Cloud Mounter are third party apps, that work with Dropbox and other cloud services to mount them as volumes/network drives to serve files. However, how Dropbox chooses to display that file to the OS is entirely up to them. I love the Dropbox UI, sharing permissions, etc, but these kinds of issues with moving/dealing with large amounts of data are extremely frustrating to deal Yes, in principal, that's true, the OS is what's doing the copying. I literally had to buy a second internal hard drive just because of this dropbox limitation, and the fact that Dropbox will delete your data if you point it's storage location to an external volume that could become unmounted. I can't even use the Dropbox website to do this kind of thing, because there seems to be a size limit on downloads of folders/directories. Try doing this with about 20 folders, all of this same size or much larger and you'll quickly see how frustrating/redundant this is, and how physically impossible it is unless you have massive amounts of local internal storage space. So I now need to go manually set the folder in Dropbox back to online-only again. Once the folder is successfully on the external drive, it still exists on my internal drive as offline. This also means that I need to have at least the same amount of space as that folder on my INTERNAL hard drive for it to store itself there, objectively for no reason.Ģ. Instead of downloading the folder directly to my hard drive, or cleaning up as it goes, Dropbox makes the entire contents of that folder offline, downloading it in the background before copying. I paste it in the destination folder on the external hard drive. I have a 50 gigabyte project folder that is online-only in Dropbox that I need to copy to an external hard drive.
Cloudmounter no cache download#
No, I'm not getting any specific errors etc, but if I copy an online-only file/folder, it has to download first before copying, which is part of what I'm saying needs to change above.
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