Take Control of Dropbox, 2nd Edition

Sync Files on a Mac or PC

The primary purpose of Dropbox is to keep a set of files in sync across your own computers and mobile devices, and to make them accessible on nearly any other device via a Web browser or app. Anything you put in your Dropbox on one device is synced to the Dropbox servers in the cloud, and from there, synced back to the Dropbox on each of your other devices.

Note: When I write that Dropbox is in “the cloud,” I mean that Dropbox has built an Internet service that uses many servers in a variety of locations to support millions of simultaneous users, each of whom can set up and manage Dropbox on their own. To learn more about the cloud generally, read my book Take Control of the Cloud.

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