Sync Your Android Device Folders to Dropbox

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Android users can now take advantage of Dropbox that is currently providing online cloud storage. If your mobile phone is running on Android, then you can now make use of this cloud storage access that is linked to your Dropbox account. In the next section, we will examine how you would handle the situation where you are not satisfied with the way Dropbox is uploading files manually and especially how you would fix that using the Titanium Media Sync.

What do you need?

• You need the Titanium Media Sync app for mobile phones.

How Titanium Media Sync works

This app allows user to synchronize files to and from the Dropbox. This in turn means that when you add this app to your Dropbox, you are actually adding continuous sync to this cloud storage. It is common practice that users of Dropbox would store it in their SD cards. With the titanium media sync app, you would be able to upload photos faster from your mobile phone as photos are automatically stored in the SD card. In other words, you synch your Dropbox folder to your SD card once and for all.

This app is paid up app and you can get it for Rs 145.98 or 3 USD for your Android mobile phone. It supports basically two different modes of sync which are:

1. Continuous sync that works from the local to remote and
2. One shot sync that works from remote to local.

What titanium media sync does is that in continuously and automatically keeps sync of the folders that are in the SD card of your Android phone and the online cloud storage folders like Dropbox.

Its interface is user-friendly in that anyone can understand it. It is organized in a way that you have all your SD folders on the left column and the Dropbox files on the right. To sync them you simply drag and drop them and this can be done either way, from left to right to get them in the Dropbox or from right to left to get them to your SD card.

Finally, this app is flexible as to using either Wi-Fi or 3G data connectivity but you can never at any given time upload more than 300MB data per file. It conforms to other Dropbox terms as well.