Launch Dropbox Encore and a second Dropbox icon should appear in your task bar, this is how you know the software is working correctly.Put it somewhere easy to find and give it a unique name so you can easily tell the folders apart In Finder, make yourself a folder that will be home for your second dropbox folder.
Here are instructions (a Howto) on how to have multiple drop box accounts set up on one (Mac) computer. Nothing daunting it’s actually relatively easy. It’s easy to set up a second Dropbox account (you just need a second email address), but having both sync to your computer requires a bit of fiddling around. I wanted to have a second Dropbox account to store Dropbox backups of one of my websites. It is a convenient way to store files in the Cloud (on the Internet). As in the previous case, if this step is skipped then the default folder will be selected and will overwrite any other existing synchronisation folder (possibly from the first Dropbox account).I trust you are already familiar with Dropbox. Again, as in the case of Mac OS, special attention should be paid in the final step where the user needs to specifically define the target folder for the synchronisation. Once this shortcut is executed, a second Dropbox client is activated which asks for the usual user login for the synchronisation. Attention to the correct username (here is sepdek, but it can be any username defined by any user).įinal step is the definition of the shortcut name In the shortcut properties type in a command like the followingĬ:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:sepdek /savecred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dropbox\Client\Dropbox.exe"Īs shown in the following figure. Next comes the definition of a new shortcut with right mouse click on a folder, in this example on the desktop. Ok, there is a new user now, in this case named “sepdek”. The settings are shown in the following figures.
Right click on the empty space in the users console and select New User…ĭefine the new user name and password and after that right click on the new user to change the user group that user belongs. In the Computer management console select and open the Local Users and Groups and then the Users. Right click on the Start icon and select Computer management. Ok, first things first: let’s add a new user to the system. Multiple Dropbox clients on WindowsĪctivating a second Dropbox account on Windows is slightly more complex, since it needs the addition of another Windows user. If this step is skipped then the default folder will be selected and will overwrite any other existing synchronisation folder (possibly from the first Dropbox account). Attention should be paid in the final step where the user needs to specifically define the target folder for the synchronisation. Once the application is launched it will require the user to login and select the folders to synchronise. The process is shown in the following figures. HOME=$HOME/Dropbox_auxiliary /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &>/dev/null &
Once the Automator launches, select the creation of a new application and write a single line of code in a Run Shell Script type of automation. It includes only the creation of a very simple application using the Automator app included in the system. On a Mac this is fairly easy and straightforward. In the following paragraphs there are step-by-step guides to activate a second Dropbox account on both Windows and Mac. Nevertheless, it is fairly easy and simple to activate two (or more) Dropbox accounts either on Windows or on Mac OS. This means that if a user has multiple accounts there is no official way to synchronise all Dropbox accounts under one personal computing device user account. The official Dropbox client application, at least to date, supports one and only one user account per personal computer user.