Using FileBrowser to Sync Dropbox Folders Offline on My iPad
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Using FileBrowser to Sync Dropbox Folders Offline on My iPad
As I mentioned on NPC, over the past year or so, I’ve embarked on a project that’s more or less complete now: I’ve been slowly digitizing my entire collection of old videogames for various platforms, converting all of them to files that I’ve meticulously organized in folders and archived in Dropbox. The process of how I’ve been converting and archiving games will be a topic on a future episode of NPC. What I want to cover here today is a different, although related, problem: as an iPad-only user who no longer owns a Mac, I didn’t know how to transfer all of those online-based folders to an SD card plugged into my iPad Pro.
You see, the reason I wanted to keep everything in Dropbox was simplicity. I test a wide variety of handhelds for NPC, and I wanted to find the fastest, most foolproof way to move my game collection from one device to another. The best solution I’ve found to date is having a single ‘Emulators’ folder stored somewhere locally (whether it’s a USB pen drive or a microSD card), plugging that into the handheld I’m testing, and either accessing those games directly from the external storage or copying them to the device’s internal storage. After a conversion process that took months, I did end up with a folder containing all my games for all the consoles I owned; however, I was constantly running into issues with the Dropbox file provider in the iPad’s Files app, which, unlike Finder, couldn’t reliably keep that ‘Emulators’ folder synced offline at all times.