Dropbox

Mount your personal Dropbox as a Windows drive and work with files directly in Explorer.

Before you begin

Prepare the following in advance:

• A Dropbox account. You can also sign in with the Microsoft, Google, or Apple account linked to it.

For a Dropbox team account, use the Dropbox entry in the Business tab instead — see Dropbox (Business).

Help from Dropbox

• Dropbox Help Center
• Connected apps in your account

Connect

1. Click Add in the toolbar.
2. Choose Personal → Dropbox.
3. Set the drive letter and name, then click Connect.
4. Your browser opens — sign in to Dropbox and click Allow to grant access.

Settings

Setting	Description	Default
Drive letter	Where the drive mounts in Windows	first available
Name	Label shown in Explorer	Dropbox
Read-only	Blocks writes to the mounted drive	off

Behavior & limits

• Dropbox does not sync temporary files. Files named like these are not saved — see Dropbox: fix files not syncing:
  • names starting with ~$
  • names starting with ~ and ending with .tmp
  • names starting with .~
• Because of the temporary-file rule above, Microsoft Office autosave files behave differently than on a local disk. RaiDrive therefore mounts Dropbox as a network drive by default — keep it that way if you edit Office documents on the drive.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause	Fix
An Office temp file never appears	Dropbox skips ~$-style names by design	Nothing to fix — the real document still saves
Sign-in succeeds but the drive is empty	Signed in to the wrong Dropbox account	Disconnect the drive, then connect again and sign in with the intended account