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Sharing a Dropbox folder with Host & Guest OS (Virtual Box)

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Mar 15, 20263066 views
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I am using VirtualBox on Windows 7 with Ubuntu as a guest OS. I have installed the Guest OS Additions and know how to share folders and automatically mount them. My question is out of pure curiosity. What would happen if I set my Dropbox folder in Ubuntu to be the exact same folder/share as in Wind…

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Fix for: Sharing a Dropbox folder with Host & Guest OS (Virtual Box)

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I recently tried the same thing, and my conclusion is the like the one you describe in your edit. I did get a lot of revisions quickly when having Dropbox installed on both the host as on the guest. This will show up in the version history of files …

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