Full Guide: How to Automatically Save Screenshots to Dropbox

How do I save a screenshot to Dropbox?

Screenshots are just as important as videos and photos, helping us to preserve important or interesting moments. We've already covered how to automatically save screenshots to OneDrive previously, and today we're focusing on how to automatically upload screenshots to Dropbox.

Thankfully, Dropbox screenshot provides you with a simple way to save print screen to Dropbox. In the following, we'll show you how to do it.

How to save screenshots to Dropbox automatically on Windows and Mac

Dropbox offers a screenshot feature to save screenshots and screen recordings to the cloud automatically. The Dropbox screenshot function is available on Windows (except Windows in S mode) and Mac. To automatically save screenshots to Dropbox, you should first download and install the Dropbox desktop app on your PC.

Next, follow the guide below to learn how to automatically save screenshots in Dropbox on Windows and Mac.

Step 1. Run and log in to the Dropbox desktop app.

Step 2. Click the Dropbox icon on task bar, tap Settings, and select Preferences.

Step 3. Under the Backup tab, tick Share screenshots using Dropbox and hit Apply.

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Where do screenshots automatically save on Mac and Windows? By default, in macOS, all screenshots are saved to the desktop with the name “Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.” In Windows, the default path to your Screenshots folder is C:\Users\username\Pictures\Screenshots.

If you have changed the default location of your screenshots on Mac, you should change it back since screenshots automatically saved to Dropbox can only work when screenshots are set to be saved on your desktop.

After you press the Print Screen button on computer, your screenshots will be auto saved to a folder named “Screenshots” on Dropbox.

How to Turn off Dropbox screenshot

If you want to stop saving screenshots to Dropbox on Mac or Windows, you can just turn to the Dropbox Preferences and untick the Share screenshots using Dropbox option to prevent screenshots from being saved on Dropbox easily.

Another way to save screenshots to Dropbox with ease

What if Dropbox screenshot not working for auto save screenshots to cloud? You can turn to the powerful cloud backup software - CBackup with an auto sync feature for help. With this tool, screenshots, pictures, videos, documents, or even hard drives can be synchronized to Dropbox automatically.

CBackup key features ✈ It allows you to set up scheduled sync plans on a daily, weekly, or monthly frequency. ✈ It provides you with fast, safe, and stable file synchronization services. ✈ It can sync files to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and other cloud storage services effectively. ✈ It provides cloud backup function to backup files to clouds including CBackup Cloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more for data protection. ✈ Moreover, it can backup Dropbox to OneDrive, Google Drive, FTP, and more clouds with simple clicks.

How to save screenshots to Dropbox on Windows 10/8/7? Download the CBackup backup software on your computer, sign up for a free CBackup account, then you can follow these steps.

Step 1. Launch the CBackup desktop app and sign in.

Step 2. Select OneDrive on the Storage screen and then click Authorize Now to warrant CBackup to connect with your OneDrive files.

Step 3. Go to the Sync tab, and tap Sync PC to Public Cloud.

Step 4. Edit the task name, and add your screenshot folder as the sync source. Then, choose a folder in Dropbox as the sync target location.

Step 5. Hit Settings to enable auto sync for screenshots by checking Set a Sync schedule for automated Sync under Scheduler.

Step 6. After that, click Start Sync to save screenshots to Dropbox simply.

How to get more Dropbox storage space for free

Syncing all screenshots to Dropbox may run out of your cloud storage quickly. If you need more storage space, you can use CBackup to combine cloud accounts and expand cloud storage for free.

CBackup enables you to merge numerous cloud accounts. For instance, you can combine 5 free Dropbox accounts to get 10GB of free storage. You can also merge Dropbox and OneDrive or merge Dropbox and Google Drive.

Step 1. Launch CBackup, log in to it, and head to the Storage section.

Step 2. Click + Add Cloud on the top, select the cloud drive you want to combine and complete the authorization.

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You can repeat the cloud-adding step to add unlimited cloud accounts to CBackup.

Step 3. After adding, tap + Add Combined Cloud, choose all the clouds you wish to merge, and click Next.

Step 4. Define the order of the clouds you use to backup files, and hit Combine.

Now, all the selected clouds are combined. You can save data to the merged cloud by going to the Backup page and picking Backup PC to Combined Cloud.

Conclusion

You can save screenshots to Dropbox with its screenshot feature. If the Dropbox screenshot feature does not work on your computer, you can use CBackup to upload screenshots in Dropbox automatically with ease.

Besides, you can use this utility to combine cloud accounts and get Dropbox 100GB storage or more at no cost.