One of the most useful computer applications that I’ve come across so far isDropbox.

Whatever the reason is, there are ways to run multiple Dropbox accounts at once.

Here are the steps to do it on a Mac.

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before you jump in, you gotta create an additional account withDropbox.

There are two steps that need to be taken.

The first step is setting up the account.

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HOME=$HOME/.dropbox-alt /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox &

That’s the end of step 1.

We’ll go to the second step: creating the startup item for the extra Dropbox instance.

mkdir -p ~/wherever you like/DropboxAltStarter.app/Contents/MacOS/

chmod 755

After the long journey

Whew!

Multiple Dropbox Accounts

That was quite a long ride, wasn’t it?

So, what would you do with two Dropbox instances?

Do you know the way to run multiple Dropbox accounts?

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