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Dropbox feeds shared folders into Brink’s Document Center: files are versioned, parsed (with OCR for scans), classified, and made searchable with page-level citations. Who can connect: organization owners and admins for a shared connection; any member can connect their own Dropbox from Profile → My integrations.

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Connect Dropbox

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Open Integrations

  • Organization: on the Integrations page, click the Dropbox card, then Connect Dropbox (owners and admins only).
  • Personal: go to Profile → My integrations and click Connect on Dropbox.
Integrations page with the Dropbox drawer open

The Dropbox drawer — click Connect Dropbox to start

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Authorize with Dropbox

Sign in and approve access. Use an account that can already see the folders you want covered — Brink’s access follows exactly what that account can see.
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Bind folders

Brink returns you to the Integrations page and opens Bind folders to a project automatically. Pick the Project, tick the folders Brink should sync, and click Bind n folders. Choose Skip for now to bind later.The list offers your Dropbox root — All files (root) — first, then every top-level folder.
Binding the root covers everything even if folders get reorganized later.
An organization Dropbox connection with no folder binding syncs nothing at all — Brink will not walk an entire company Dropbox and publish it org-wide. Bind at least one folder to finish the setup.
To add bindings later, open the Dropbox card, and on the account click Bind folders — the same picker opens. You can also bind from a project’s Integrations tab on the Projects page.

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What gets synced

All files in the bound folder and its subfolders flow into the Document Center — stored, versioned, read page by page (with OCR for scans), and made searchable, keeping the page and line behind every citation. Brink tracks Dropbox’s own change feed, so a sync picks up only what moved since the last one. Dropbox reports deletions too, so removed files are marked deleted in Brink.
Very large files are recorded by name and location but not read — Brink’s per-file limit is 300 MB by default.

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Notes

  • Dropbox syncs on the regular schedule, roughly every 15 minutes. You can force one at any time with Sync now.
  • A personal Dropbox connection with no folder binding covers your whole Dropbox, and everything from it stays visible only to you.
  • Disconnecting revokes Brink’s access with Dropbox and deletes the stored credentials.