Setup Kit chapter
Setting Up Dropbox
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Install Dropbox, make it the default landing spot, and stop your devices from saving elsewhere.
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You’ve picked your cloud. Good. Now the real job starts.
Installing Dropbox is not enough. Your Mac, your phone, your browser, and your chat apps all have their own favorite places to save files. Desktop. Downloads. iCloud. Google Drive. “Just for now” folders.
That is how one clean system turns back into five messy ones.
The goal of this chapter is simple: Dropbox should become the place your devices naturally offer first.
What this chapter covers
- Installing on Mac
- Stop iCloud Drive from competing on your Mac
- Train save dialogs to open in Dropbox
- Your Desktop should not be a storage location
- Change your download locations now
- Setting up on iPhone
- Setting up on Android
- Turn off competing phone sync