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Old August 31st 16, 04:06 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general
Steve Hayes[_2_]
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Default Dropbox workaround

On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:18:49 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:

I used to sync data files between my desktop computer running Windows
XP and my laptop runiin Windows 7 using Dropbox.

Since Dropbox stopped supporting Windows XP yesterday, I've had to
develop a workaround. Here it is, in case it helps anyone facing a
similar problem -- one line in a batch file:

XXCOPY J:\Dropbox\*.* G:\Stevedoc\Dropbox\ /BN /s /y

sig spam omitted in reply


Any decent newsreader will automatically omit the sig in a reply -- so
why do you need to say so?

So one of those destinations must be a mapped network drive. Then why
do you need Dropbox at all? There are lots of sync tools, like SyncBack
Free. You used one but between Dropbox folders yet with drive mapping
the sync could be between any set of folders.


Well, I might have said thanks, I'll have a look at it, but the troll
comment above makes me wonder about your bona fides and that of the
software you recommend.


Steve Hayes
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