Make sure to choose the main folder here as well. Go to local folder and find your vault files that you downloaded in step 3. Make sure to choose your main folder and not a subfolder (aka the contents of your vault).

After that, go to Remote folder and choose your vault from Dropbox. Going from top to bottom, pick a name for your folder pair. Once all of that is finished, go ahead and click Choose what to sync.Ĭhoose Let me create my own folder pair. Allow that, then log into your Dropbox account. It will tell you to allow permissions to your storage. Scroll down to the Troubleshooting section of this guide if Dropbox won’t let you download your vault files. Make sure you know where your files are so that you don’t lose them. Both Internal Storage and SD Card work fine, although if your vault has a lot of files and you have access to an SD Card, I suggest moving it there. Download your vault from Dropbox into your device. (Note that this is what I did, I don’t know what happens if you move your files from the original location to Dropbox and how it affects the Obsidian app on PC.)

Delete your original vault if you want to. Go into Obsidian and make a new vault from the files you just pasted.

Devices Used: Windows 10 & Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G on Android 11ĭownload Dropbox on your PC, as well as downloading Dropbox and Dropsync onto your Android.Ĭopy your vault from the original location and paste it into your Dropbox.

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