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    Feature Request: Multiple Dropbox Sync Folders

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    • zrzka
      zrzka last edited by

      Not exactly what you want, but symlinks can help you ...

      • set Dropbox folder in Editorial to /Apps/Editorial
      • symlink all wanted folders to /Apps/Editorial

      ... that's it. Editorial can work with /Apps/Editorial content only, but you can symlink another Dropbox directory (even directory outside of /Apps/Editorial) there as well. Just tested in Editorial and it does work.

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      • davemacdo
        davemacdo last edited by

        Just wanted to second this request for multiple folder sync. I use Editorial to sync my notes folder, and I want to maintain a completely flat folder of many small notes files there. But I would also really like to use Editorial for bigger documents, especially with some of the new features in 1.2 and the possibilities with iOS 9. Some of those documents I want to share with collaborators, and I'm not comfortable sharing things from my personal notes folder.

        Side note, you don't have to use /Apps/Editorial as suggested above (though I think /Apps/Editorial is the default). I'm using /notes. You can pick any folder to sync right now, but you can pick only one folder, whichever it is.

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        • kleerkoat
          kleerkoat last edited by

          i also would like the ability to do this.

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          • markljackson
            markljackson @davemacdo last edited by markljackson

            @davemacdo said:

            Side note, you don't have to use /Apps/Editorial as suggested above (though I think /Apps/Editorial is the default). I'm using /notes. You can pick any folder to sync right now, but you can pick only one folder, whichever it is.

            That DOES NOT fix the problem. The problem is NOT having access to multiple DB folders, so you can segregate documents. Nor can you open docs from other DB directories (open in ...) w/o the doc being moved, and zeroed out. Not useful.

            I have MARKDOWN docs, TASKLIST docs, and CODE docs that I don't want mixed with each either. When Script-o-Gram was working I couldn't use Editorial to write posts w/o jumping through hoops,

            Ulysess not only lets me access all directories in Box, and Dropbox; I can access my github files via WorkingCopy!

            Having on ONE directory choice means having A VERY LONG LIST files that are mixed together, and don't have any distinguishing marks other than the icon. It also means that you are locked into that directory. arg.

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            • ccc
              ccc last edited by

              Would it be possible to write to three directories inside /Apps/Editorial ?

              • /Apps/Editorial/Code
              • /Apps/Editorial/Markdown
              • /Apps/Editorial/Tasklist
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              • trevormeier
                trevormeier last edited by

                I would also like the ability to make use of more than one Dropbox folder. In my case, for syncing with my desktop writing tool Scrivener, which uses one folder per project.

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                • toffer25
                  toffer25 last edited by

                  I would love this as well.

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                  • MartinPacker
                    MartinPacker last edited by

                    +1 ...

                    My Dropbox blogging folder subtree is different from my iThoughts outlining subtree. (They are for related but different parts of my "giveback" / "outreach".)

                    iThoughts seems to allow linking to multiple folders.

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                    • ben
                      ben last edited by

                      +1 - this would be a big help.

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                      • derickfay
                        derickfay last edited by

                        +1 please!

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                        • robopu
                          robopu last edited by

                          +1 for me on this as well.

                          i just posted in the forum recently asking for some help on an issue.

                          my use case is simply that some of my documents are completely private and i don't want them going to the cloud period. i'd love to be able to only synch the public folders / portions of my local editorial tree and exclude local private folders from any synch.

                          thx

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                          • jmb275
                            jmb275 last edited by

                            +1 Please! This is vital to my workflow and the symlink solution DOES NOT work reliably as discussed here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206318236-Link-an-internal-folder-instead-of-copying-

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                            • minorjive
                              minorjive last edited by

                              I very much would like this feature too! I'd like to have my taskpaper folders always there as well as some others.

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