Hi Brian,
Welcome to the Boxifier forums!
Yes, you can use Boxifier in this scenario. Here are the steps to follow:
- Connect your external drive
- Go to your external drive, choose the folder that you want to backup to Dropbox
- Right-click on it and choose “Boxifier - Sync with Dropbox”
- The folder will start syncing (a blue circle that appears on the folder’s icon - just like with Dropbox)
- Wait until folder is done syncing (green checkmark on the folder’s icon)
Your folder should now be synced to your Dropbox. Now, because you don’t want to keep syncing this folder (you just wanted to upload it to Dropbox) you will use Selective Sync to stop it from syncing.
- Click on the Dropbox icon from the system tray, click on the gear icon and select “Preferences…”
- Click the Account tab then click the “Selective Sync…” button.
- A window will appear with a list of all the top level folders in your Dropbox folder. Locate the “Boxifier” folder
- When expanding the Boxifier folder you will find the folder that you synced from the external drive.
- Uncheck the folder that you synced and click “Update”.
The changes that you make to the folder on the external drive will now no longer be synced to Dropbox.
You can now safely remove the external drive.
Hope this helps,
Razvan
