Best way to move from Dropbox/Amazon sync apps to odrive?

[rich2]

I am on a MAC and currently use the DropBox sync app and Amazon Photos (yuk). I have 500+GB that I need to transition from the DropBox/Amazon folders to the odrive folder. What is the best and most efficient way to do that and insure I don’t lose any data?

[Tony]

Hi @rich2,
Take a look at this post, which goes into the details of how this can be done:

Any way to map existing laptop folders already synced to my services?

Hi @trraacy, Some users have done this by moving the data over from the other service folders (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc) into the corresponding locations in odrive. odrive attempts to reconcile the local and remote data in a way that prevents re-upload of identical data. In most cases it works well, but it will depend on a few factors, including the storage source being used. So, for example, if you were move the contents of your Dropbox folder into odrive\Dropbox, odrive will try …

[rich2]

Thanks Tony.
That post is 2 years old, is it still the best way?

[Tony]

Hi @rich2,
Yes, this is still the proper method.