Follow the standard Dropbox set up instructions but be sure to choose ‘Advanced’ and configure the software to use your new folder as the place to store files locally.See the image to the right for an example. Change the Preferences in one of the Dropbox instances to “Use black and white menu bar icons”.Launch Dropbox Encore and a second Dropbox icon should appear in your task bar, this is how you know the software is working correctly.Put it somewhere easy to find and give it a unique name so you can easily tell the folders apart In Finder, make yourself a folder that will be home for your second dropbox folder.Mount the disk image and drag the application to your ‘Applications’ directory.Here are the instructions for the Dropbox Encore method: I only found out about that after I went about it another way. One way is to use a small application called Dropbox Encore. Here are instructions (a Howto) on how to have multiple drop box accounts set up on one (Mac) computer. Nothing daunting it’s actually relatively easy. It’s easy to set up a second Dropbox account (you just need a second email address), but having both sync to your computer requires a bit of fiddling around. I wanted to have a second Dropbox account to store Dropbox backups of one of my websites. It is a convenient way to store files in the Cloud (on the Internet). I trust you are already familiar with Dropbox.
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