Windows Help & Advice - UK (2019-12)

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Use Dropbox

in Windows 10

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ropbox is an app that, at its

heart, synchronises a folder

on your PC with other

computers – the same files are

availableeverywhere. You can also

accessthem via the web on any

device, although the files aren’t

stored on your device unless you

choose to download them. In many

ways, it works very similarly to

Microsoft’s OneDrive.

Dropbox isn’t really meant as a cold

storage system – its plans for lots of

storage are rather expensive, and it’s

recently been targeting business

users over consumers. But for

managing the stuff you’re working on

right now, it’s unparalleled. We often

work across multiple devices and use

it as the main place to store our files

instead of Documents. What’s more,

you can share files with other people,

and easily find things, too.

Dropbox is free for 2GB of storage

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1 Download the app

Firstly, go to dropbox.com to download and install the

desktop app. There is also an app in the Windows Store, but it’s

more like the mobile version of the app and doesn’t do the file

synchronisation we want to show here. You may be prompted to

buy a Dropbox plan (above) but you don’t need to do that. You

also don’t need to set up an account until the next stage.

2 Sign into the app

You will need to sign into the app to ‘link’ it to a Dropbox

account. Don’t have a Dropbox account? Then you can sign up at

the bottom of this window. You can also use Google to sign into

the app should you have an existing Google account. Creating a

Dropbox account is a really simple process and the app won’t ask

you for extra details it doesn’t really need.

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THE WEB

INTERFACE

The web interface

replicates features

you get in the

desktop and

Windows Store apps.

FILE MENU

Here we’ve opened

the menu on one

particular file so you

can see the various

file management

options available.

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