Forma Dropbox question

NoHolyGrail · 12-01-2019, 02:39 PM

Does anyone have experience using the new Dropbox feature with a (very) large Dropbox account? My concern is that I have thousands of PDFs in my Dropbox already. So I'm worried this will overwhelm the Kobo Forma. The instructions make it sound like it will attempt to sync every compatible file to the device. My Dropbox easily contains well over the 8GB capacity of my Forma.

Dropbox ordinarily gives a "selective sync" option so you can choose to only sync certain folders. However, it looks like the Kobo Forma won't actually be treated like a normal Dropbox device, so I'm assuming the selective sync feature won't be available.

Any information about your experiences with Dropbox on Forma would be helpful.

patrik · 12-01-2019, 04:49 PM

It only syncs one directory, not your current ones. It's in the manual.

NoHolyGrail · 12-08-2019, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patrik

It only syncs one directory, not your current ones. It's in the manual.

I don't follow. What do you mean?

ilovejedd · 12-08-2019, 11:57 AM

See this:
https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...r-with-Dropbox

It only syncs books that are in:
Dropbox > Apps > Rakuten Kobo

Do wish they'd roll out this feature on the Libra soon.

NoHolyGrail · 12-08-2019, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

It only syncs books that are in:
Dropbox > Apps > Rakuten Kobo

Perfect, thanks for explaining! I somehow managed to miss this important detail when I was reading through the instructions.

robko · 12-08-2019, 12:10 PM

And it lets you choose on the device which files out of that directory you want to download (doesn't automatically download them).

12-01-2019, 02:39 PM	#1
NoHolyGrail Connoisseur Posts: 82 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 3 (previously owned PRS-500, PRS-600)	Dropbox question Does anyone have experience using the new Dropbox feature with a (very) large Dropbox account? My concern is that I have thousands of PDFs in my Dropbox already. So I'm worried this will overwhelm the Kobo Forma. The instructions make it sound like it will attempt to sync every compatible file to the device. My Dropbox easily contains well over the 8GB capacity of my Forma. Dropbox ordinarily gives a "selective sync" option so you can choose to only sync certain folders. However, it looks like the Kobo Forma won't actually be treated like a normal Dropbox device, so I'm assuming the selective sync feature won't be available. Any information about your experiences with Dropbox on Forma would be helpful.

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12-01-2019, 04:49 PM	#2
patrik Guru Posts: 657 Karma: 4568205 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Kobo Forma	It only syncs one directory, not your current ones. It's in the manual.

12-08-2019, 11:57 AM	#4
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,111 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	See this: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...r-with-Dropbox It only syncs books that are in: Dropbox > Apps > Rakuten Kobo Do wish they'd roll out this feature on the Libra soon.

12-08-2019, 12:10 PM	#6
robko Wizard Posts: 2,454 Karma: 5469320 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kobo	And it lets you choose on the device which files out of that directory you want to download (doesn't automatically download them).