Moving Dropbox

By default, Dropbox stores stuff somewhere under “My Documents” on XP or under “Documents” on Vista. I’ve never had a problem with that – until I started to use it on my Eee netbook. See, that has a tiny little 4GB solid state drive. Where possible, I like to move “transient” and cache data off to a separate SSD drive. Saves drive space and drive “life.”

Dropbox won’t let me do that. Oh, don’t get me wrong, it appears to very easy to move your storage location:

Just don’t try to move it to a removable drive! You get an error message of, “Target Media is on removable media.” Haters… I know it is on removable – that’s by design!

While trying to fix this I stumbled over an addon called DropboxPath. The description for it looks likely,

allows you to set the path to your Dropbox without any restrictions, so it can be placed on removable drives

but I’ve had zero luck with it so far! Instead, I just get an error telling me that it won’t move to a new drive. It is possible I did something wrong, but I’m not sure I’m ready to re-install .NET framework 3.5 (again) to experiment some more. That, itself, is a big load to install for a command line utility!

Bah, maybe I’ll go see how that Live Mesh beta is coming along…

[Updated] For what it is worth, Live Mesh doesn’t allow storage on removable drives either.

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