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GLBehr
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Dec 23, 2013

DropBox Help

I am the consumer who probably should not have purchased a ReadyNAS. I was out to purchase a consumer cloud and the guy at Staples insisted I would be much happier with a ReadyNAS. First he sold me a setup he insisted had a 8tb drive pre installed, my DA should have know by the great price this did not have a drive in it, and Diskless should have been my first tip that this guy didn't know what he was talking about. After setting it up and realizing it didn't have a disk I went on Netgear's site to find a compatible drive, and purchased a 3tb drive that was on the list. I have read 48 pages of the manual so far, and as far as an internal home server I have everybody setup in the house in order to be able to save files to it. I have setup my laptop and my cell phone to be able to access it out of the house. Very upset my Galaxy Tab 3 cannot access it via an app, its part of the reason I bought this was to have that additional storage for my Tablet.

Here is my first challenge, I only have a 50gb Dropbox account, its not what I wanted as my primary storage, I just want to store a couple of files on Dropbox I need access to, and to have the pics I take on my cell phone to upload to Dropbox. However since my wife has transferred her entire digital picture library, several 100gbs of family pics, I have been watching on my laptop as file after file of pictures are uploading to Dropbox from the ReadyNAS and this is not what I want. What I thought I was getting was the ability to upload to Dropbox, and then those files would transfer to the ReadyNAS, but it seems to be going the opposite direction. How do I stop the ReadyNAS from uploading files to Dropbox, and can I set it up for files that upload to Dropbox automatically download to the ReadyNAS?

I know, this DA should not even own this product at this point, but I have already invested $300 in this and at this point I need to get through the learning curve to make it work for me.

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    You can access it from your tab.
    -readydlna or plex for media streaming (DLNA servers)
    -es file explorer for downloading or uploading files to the tablet from the NAS (uses FTP or FTPS on the NAS)

    You can also access it using the tablet web browser (if you have http enabled for the shared folders).

    You could potentially use es file explorer to upload your pictures - not sure if that is easy enough for what you want though.
  • that solves the tab issue and I appreciate that, still looking to stop this from uploading to dropbox, at this point am I stuck just turning off Dropbox from the NAS?
  • GLBehr wrote:
    How do I stop the ReadyNAS from uploading files to Dropbox

    The ReadyNAS Dropbox addon exists for that purpose; it is intended to provide the same two-way Dropbox sync that you get on your PC desktop.

    It sounds as though you don't really need Dropbox at all; you just want a folder on your NAS that's automatically synced to all your PCs and Macs, with access from your Android or iOS devices. That's the "personal cloud" that you were originally looking for, right?

    If so, consider BitTorrentSync (aka BTSync). Information is at http://www.bittorrent.com/sync, and Super-Poussin has created an addon for the ReadyNAS OS6 devices here (use the 1.2.82 version): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ie9pwk1wut72ias/p6_X2QeOIC.

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