Sync Dropbox with Google Drive
Cloud services are very trendy. In addition to Dropbox, Google Drive has also established itself to synchronize data. If you use both services in parallel and want to have your data from the Dropbox in Google Drive, there is a simple trick that we will explain to you here.
Integrate the Dropbox folder into the Google Drive folder
Both services work on the PC according to the same principle: a completely normal folder is created in the file system of the hard drive and all the files it contains are synchronized with the cloud service. If you put the Dropbox folder in the Google Drive folder, your Dropbox data will also be automatically synchronized with Google Drive.
How to set up synchronization
Setting up synchronization between Dropbox and Google Drive is not difficult. Here's how to do it:
- First install Google Drive on your computer. Where you create the associated folder in your data directory does not matter at first.
- Now create a subfolder in the Google Drive folder, which you can name "Dropbox", for example. This is necessary because Dropbox incorrectly recognizes the Google Drive folder as a "system folder" and refuses to install Dropbox directly in it with an error message.
- Install Dropbox on the PC. Here you have to consider the location of the folder. If you already have Dropbox on your computer, the location can only be changed by reinstalling it.
- During the installation you will come to the point "Select setup type". Click here on "Advanced".
- At the next point choose "I want to determine the location of my Dropbox myself".
- Click on "Change" and select the subfolder created in point 2.
- Go ahead and shoot the installation. You can then use Google Drive to access and edit all of your Dropbox data.
Alternative: web application for synchronization
A particularly convenient alternative is the "CloudHQ" web service. There you simply select the two services Dropbox and Google Drive and log in to both. The tool then handles the synchronization on its own. However, the price of at least $ 9.90 a month is pretty steep.