Syncing Dropbox folder to SharePoint

Natively cloud storage platforms don’t communicate between them, however there are times when this is required, such you have part of your organization in a country that does not allow Dropbox, or you have two seperate organization’s sharing a project together.

Using a solution such as Couchdrop can bridge this gap and provide the ability to automate the one directional syncing of two locations between two disparate platforms, whether it’s SFTP → SharePoint, Dropbox → Google Drive, Windows File System → S3 or another combination. It keeps it simple and as a SaaS platform it manages the infrastructure and security for you.

In this case, syncing a Dropbox folder to SharePoint is as easy as mounting the two platforms and configuring a scheduled automation to sync files across at a scheduled time daily, or down to a few minutes. See below how to configure this.

Step 1 — Create Couchdrop account

First thing is first, you need a Couchdrop account. Not a major, put in some details, no need for credit card yet either — Couchdrop offers a 14-day free trial (no credit card required).

Create Couchdrop account

Step 2 — Mount Dropbox

Once you have an account, click +Add Storage Integration. From here select Dropbox (or Dropbox Business) and authenticate using OAuth.

Select Dropbox from the grid

Mount Dropbox and chose the root folder

Step 3 — Mount SharePoint

After connecting Dropbox to Couchdrop, it’s now a case of mounting SharePoint. Similar to Dropbox you can navigate to your Storage Dashboard and +Add Storage Integration and select SharePoint from the grid.

Mount SharePoint for the destination location

Step 4 — Configure Automation (sync)

When both platforms are connected, navigate to your Automation Dashboard and Add New Automation. Select Create a Scheduled Workflow.

• Configure the source location (Dropbox in this case) and skip conditions as they aren’t required for this simple use case.

Configure automated file transfer

• Configure an action of copy/duplicate file and specify the SharePoint destination directory.

Configure SharePoint as the destination platform for the files

• Then follow the wizard until you are returned to the automation dashboard. From here you can run a test or you can enable the workflow to start running automatically as configured.

Test or Enable Automation

For more information or to get started jump across to couchdrop.io or for more guides see community.couchdrop.io