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The CoESRA virtual environment allows Dropbox files to be accessible directly from the desktop.

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Login

When Dropbox is launched from COESRAthe CoESRA folder within the Applications menu, a browser window will be opened (as shown below) to allow the user to login to user’s their Dropbox account. After successful login,

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After successfully logging in, a permission page will be shown to seek user’s consent to grant the required permissions, in which the user must response with “ALLOW”.

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This will allow the user’s Dropbox drive will to be mounted/appeared appear as a volume /or folder in within the “Computer”.

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Logout

To logout , unmount the dropbox volume, of your Dropbox account, right-click the Dropbox volume and select “unmount”.

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“Unmount” from the menu.

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Synchronise files

To synchronise with dropbox drive, unmount the Dropbox volume and then start Dropbox.

It should be noted that the Dropbox volume will only reflect the content of your dropbox Dropbox drive at the time it is started in COESRA; it does not automatically show additional files/folders that are added outside of COESRA. To synchronise with dropbox drive, unmount the Dropbox volume and then start Dropbox.